Re: Internet diameter?

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

This begs the question, which is more meaningful a metric, AS-path or hop count?  Many networks have a large number of 
routers but the packets don’t stay in them very long.

-Ben.


> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Bryce Wilson <bryce () thenetworknerds ca> wrote:
>
> I don’t have any hard statistics but I notice that on a majority of ASs on bgp.he.net <http://bgp.he.net/>, the 
> average AS path length is between 4 and 5. As for the average number of hops, it clearly depends on what type of 
> traffic and many ASNs have more than one router. Going on my own experience I would say between 8 and 10 hops would 
> be the average of non-cached content. If you included cached content such as cdns and caches then the actual average 
> might be closer to 5 to 7. This is only an estimate from my own network and those of my clients so the actual value 
> may be completely different.
>
> As with what others have said, I’m not sure on what use this data, if collected, would be. Latency is the most 
> important.
>
>
> Thanks ~ Bryce Wilson, AS202313, EVIX, AS137933