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Re: How big is the Internet?
From: Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:00:12 -0700
On 8/14/2013 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
To paraphrase Douglas Adams... "The Internet is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!" Scott
So the correct answer is 42?
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:Researchers have complained for years about the lack of good statistics about the internet for a couple fo decades, since the end of NSFNET statistics. 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? CAIDA, ITU, Telegeography and some vendors like Cisco have released forecasts and estimates. There are occasional pieces of information stated by companies in their investor documents (SEC 10-K, etc)..
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- RE: How big is the Internet?, (continued)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? Frank Habicht (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Saku Ytti (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? - about the size of a strawberry bmanning (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Nick Khamis (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Tim Durack (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Mark Andrews (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Scott Howard (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Roy (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Lyle Giese (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Roy (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Wayne Wenthin (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Caruso, Anthony (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jason Chambers (Aug 14)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? - about the size of a strawberry Jayram Deshpande (Aug 14)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? Larry Sheldon (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jay Ashworth (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Seth Mattinen (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Seth Mattinen (Aug 15)