[164971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Chambers)
Wed Aug 14 16:11:30 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:10:39 -0700
From: Jason Chambers <jchambers@ucla.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1308141027270.24334@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 8/14/13 7:32 AM, Sean Donelan 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).
>
>
I stumbled on (an) ANT the other day. Very interesting, esp. the part
about tracking the growth of Google. I've only made a cursory review
over some of the projects but I think it is somewhat relevant to your
research, and I'm sure there are many other similar .edu projects you
could cull together for a rough estimate.
http://ant.isi.edu/blog/
http://www.isi.edu/ant/index.html
OPTE seems to have gone stale, too bad. Mapping the internet in a
single day... instant gratification !
http://www.opte.org/status/
http://opte.org/history/
Regards,
--Jason
