Seeing Double
Mike
mn at tremere.ios.com
Thu Nov 23 08:11:45 UTC 1995
I just look at ip bgp sum and see that I a mnow at 32600. abot 1000 more
thatn last week.
currently we seem to gain 1000/mo;
Mike
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Scott Huddle wrote:
> There is an often quoted statistic of the Internet
> doubling every 12 months. If we look at a snippet of
> data from the old NSFNet data from ANS, we can see this
> pretty clearly...
>
> Month Inbound
> Gigapackets/mo
> 9409 36
> 9410 44
> 9411 45
> 9412 46
> [...]
> 9409 71
> 9410 85
> 9411 90
> 9412 78
> 9501 71
> 9502 57
> 9503 64
> 9504 36
>
> (the decrease after November due to the different NSF regionals
> transitioning to their new providers)
>
> While it was never possible to have a view of all of the traffic
> on the Net, these NSFNet stats were useful as a representative
> sample of the entire whole. In particular, this doubling time
> is quite useful as a metric to try and judge general network
> growth and for planning. Obviously several things in the past
> year have occured that have greatly shortened this time. Amongst
> them the explosion of Web traffic and interactive applications,
> the huge number of new companies connecting their coporate LANS
> to the Net, the [I'm running out of synoymns for enormous, ah]
> enormous number of new companies selling and promoting Net and
> Web services. This is coupled with the big increase in
> infrastructure that ISPs and NSPs have built that help move all
> these bits about.
>
> I've see a few guesses on this list as to a doubling rate, but
> I'm wondering if there is a way to judge this growth in some
> sort of external and non-proprietary way.
>
> Perhaps a relationship between "average traffic" and the number
> of routes? This probably wouldn't hold in the specific
> (because of the degree of use of CIDR at a particular ISP),
> but may hold in the aggregate. Thinking caps?
>
> -scott (huddle at mci.net)
> MCI Internet Engineering
>
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