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Re: How big is the Internet?


From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:40:30 -0500


"This big" has been a pretty accurate answer over the years

-Jorge

On Aug 14, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> 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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