How big is the Internet?

Alex dreamwaverfx at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 14 15:10:53 UTC 2013


Current size is HUGE and growing at a phenomenal speed.
Public IP networks...just look at ARIN, RIPE,etc and see how many IPs 
there are left.
Private networks and private IPs...well that is anyone's guess.

There are no estimates because everything changes rather fast and noone 
can keep up with all this stuff.
The only thing you could have a really good estimate are the resources 
used by your company and thats about it.

On 8/14/2013 5:32 PM, Sean Donelan 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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