[165005] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Dunlap)
Thu Aug 15 12:56:25 2013
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From: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:55:33 -0500
To: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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I agree, Librarys of Congress / second is the standard notation for
bandwidth.
-Blake
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
> You'd almost think this was a technology mailing list given some of the
> answers... (ohh.. wait!)
>
> How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion.
>
> That's the number of people that have access to it. To me, that's a far
> more telling number than anything around IP address or Exabytes of data.
>
> Scott
>
