[164989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Thu Aug 15 00:10:50 2013
In-Reply-To: <31014936.3590.1376537049244.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:10:36 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
>
> > All that said: My back-of-the-envelope math says the Internet is order
> > of 1 exabyte/day, as defined by my own rules on what counts as "the
> > Internet"[*]. I could easily be wrong, but you asked.
>
> Which means that you could get somewhere between 11 and 17 days (depending
> on how far off my math was) worth of all of that onto LTO-5 carts and load
> them on a 747F. Where you'd fly them to, I'm not sure.
Unless you add in de-dup, in which case it probably comes down to about 10
carts per day. After all, we all know that 90% of that 1 exabyte/day is
just the same 3 cat videos on Youtube...
Scott
