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Re: How big is the Internet?


From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:29:48 -0400

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




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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