How many ISPs are out there?

Tue Jul 24 11:36:37 UTC 2001

At 7/24/01 09:08 PM, Alan Clegg wrote:

>Additionally, you need to subtract out the ones that have gone out of
>business.  I was looking thru the ASN list and right off the top found
>about 5 that I recognized as defunct within the first 5000.
>
>(ok, ok, 5 / 5000... maybe you don't need to subtract them out after all)
>
>AlanC {stunned that we just got an ASN in the 2xxxxx range}

There are 11,358 AS's currently announced in the BGP table in my neck of 
the woods
(http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/bgp-as-count.html)

Other folk see 11,332 (AS 286) and 11,330 (AS 818).

The highest AS number being announced at present is AS21949