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Re: How big is the Internet?


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:27:59 +0300

On (2013-08-14 10:32 -0400), Sean Donelan wrote:

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?

One interesting datapoint might be how many OUI have been allocated, it's
about 18k, 2**24 potential MAC addresses in each, so we have 300billion MAC
addresses, which is smaller number than what I would have expected.

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