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Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Wed Aug 14 16:00:24 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:00:12 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 8/14/2013 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
> To paraphrase Douglas Adams...
>
> "The Internet is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly,
> hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way
> down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!"
>
> Scott
>
So the correct answer is 42?
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>> Researchers have complained for years about the lack of good
>> statistics about the internet for a couple fo decades, since the
>> end of NSFNET statistics.
>>
>> What are the current estimates about the size of the Internet, all IP
>> networks including managed IP and private IP, and all telecommunications
>> including analog voice, video, sensor data, etc?
>>
>> CAIDA, ITU, Telegeography and some vendors like Cisco have released
>> forecasts and estimates. There are occasional pieces of information
>> stated by companies in their investor documents (SEC 10-K, etc).
>>
>>
>>
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