Re: How big is the Internet?

[Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>]

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).
> .