[165001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Thu Aug 15 11:15:23 2013
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:10:31 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 8/14/13 8:11 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
>
>> 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?
>
> I can't decide, Sean, whether it's obvious or amusing that when I dug back
> to the beginning of this thread, it would be you who'd asked. (It says
> some things I don't want to know about how email clients attribute these
> days, but that's neither here nor there.)
>
> Did you want that in "assigned IP addresses", "active IP addresses",
> "core routes", "core routes, deaggregated", "route miles of fiber",
> "aggregate bandwidth", or something else?
>
> I'm tempted to go with either "mind-bogglingly big" or "42", but since
> it's you, I'll assume you want an actual answer.
>
> Didn't someone recently redo the IPv4 census? Like last year?
>
We'll also need this data in units of number of Libraries of Congress.
~Seth
