How big is the Internet?

Wed Aug 14 23:05:15 UTC 2013

Yes.  

Smartphones have one or more IPs, which may or may not be IPv4/IPv6 & public or rfc1918 address space.  There is some tunnelling between the radio and the packet core, but they typically are first class Internet nodes.  You could look at them as analogous to cable modems or wifi clients.

Feature phones (eg. Motorola Razr) might be using a proxy gateway to to internetish stuff and that gateway actually owns the IP address they use similar to a campus network with a web proxy gateway. 

Older crackberries tunnel all their traffic inside udp-like encrypted datagrams back to the RIM data centers where they emerge onto the Internet like AOL dial-up subscribers of yesteryear.

LTE is IP end-to-end; 3G is IP to a radio-wire interface.

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From: Larry Sheldon [LarrySheldon at cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 6:50 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: How big is the Internet?

On 8/14/2013 10:31 AM, Anthony Williams wrote:
>
>
>   One segment is the number of people on the planet with a mobile device
> that can connect to the Internet? Throw in laptops, workstations,
> servers, routers, toasters, etc and the number starts to get pretty big.
>
>   The NSA will need some more hard drives.  lol
>
>
> ** Of the 6 billion cell phones in use, only around 1.1 billion of them
> are mobile-broadband devices. **
>
> http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/mobile-phone-world-population-2014

Do "we" (meaning y'all) even know the edges look like?

My elderly crackberry does internetish stuff like email and browsing and
file transfers when there is no wiffy in sight.

So it either speaks TCP/IP with the towers (it might, I have no clue),
or there is non-TCP/IP fabric in the skirts.

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