[165046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet? usage of electricity = coal for ICT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vesna Manojlovic)
Fri Aug 16 05:42:58 2013
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:42:21 +0200
From: Vesna Manojlovic <BECHA@ripe.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1308141318360.25159@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
On 14/08/13 9:00 , Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> I should have remembered, NANOG prefers to correct things. So here are
> several estimates about how much IP/Internet traffic is downloaded
> in a month. Does anyone have better numbers, or better souces of
> numbers that can be shared?
No source, but a pretty quote:
"In the near future, hourly Internet traffic will exceed the Internet’s
annual traffic in the year 2000."
http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/economic-growth/bracing-for-the-cloud/
Vesna
