[164968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Aug 14 15:01:53 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:00:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <520B9F14.1040801@teksavvy.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I should have remembered, NANOG prefers to correct things. So here are
several estimates about how much IP/Internet traffic is downloaded
in a month. Does anyone have better numbers, or better souces of
numbers that can be shared?
Arbor/Merit/Michigan Internet Observatory: 9,000 PB/month (2009)
Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies: 7,500-12,000 PB/month (2009)
Cisco Visual Network Index:
Total IP: 55,553 PB/month (2013)
Fixed IP: 39,295 PB/month (2013)
Managed IP: 14,679 PB/month (2013)
Mobile Data: 1,578 PB/month (2013)
Telegeography via ITU report: 44,000 PB/month (2012)
National Security Agency: 55,680 PB/month (2013)
Individual providers/countries
Australian Bureau of Statistics (AU only) : 184 PB/month (2012)
AT&T Big Petabyte report (AT&T only): 990 PB/month (2013)
CTIA mobile traffic (US only): 69 PB/month (2011)
London School of Economics (Europe only): 3,600 PB/month (2012)
TATA Communications: 1,600 PB/month (2013)
Historical:
NSFNET: 0.015 PB/month (1994)
