[39795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many ISPs are out there?
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Tue Jul 24 09:07:23 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:06:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Philip Smith wrote:
> At 09:21 24/07/2001 +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> >how many active ASN's are there?
>
> and minus the other multihoming networks...
>
> Hmmm, and looking at the list of ASNs it's pretty hard to work out which
> are ISPs and which are not.
>
> And then what about those ISPs who don't have an ASN...
I would hazard a guess that numerically, far less than half of the ISPs
have ASNs. We only got ours a few months ago, and out of curiousity, I
pulled out the local Yellow Pages and started doing whois's on ASNs. I
found that only one other ISP (much larger) based out of Bucks County, PA,
appeared to have an ASN (out of approx a dozen total).
I'd guess that about a third of the ISPs are multihomed, and less than a
third of those have an ASN.
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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