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Re: How big is the Internet? - about the size of a strawberry
From: Jayram Deshpande <jaydesh9 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:11:55 -0700
If we try to comprehend the Internet in terms of number of boxes that can reach from their local networks to globally routable destinations, we have to take into account Multi- NATed , multi-tunneled (ipv6 over ipv4 in a VPLS , and other crazy scenarios such v6 over v4 in a VPLS running over VXLANs : is that even realistic ? ) overlay networking environments. So also the overlays formed to talk to sensors who can understand say TM/TC ( Telemetry/Tele-commands). In terms of the Address space , the problem statement shows more convergence. Regards, -Jay Sent from my iPhone On Aug 14, 2013, at 10:06 AM, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:32:13AM -0400, 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).thats easy... the number of allocated IPv4 /32s and the number of allocated IPv6 /64s. By definition, private networks (RFC 1918) space is not part of the Internet. Or, is your question actually the absolute number of globally reachable IP addresses at any given instant? (reachable from where?) Or do you mean anything that might have an IP address associated with it at some time in its existance? Clarity would be helpful if you want a repeatable answer. /bill
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- Re: How big is the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Nick Khamis (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Tim Durack (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Mark Andrews (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Scott Howard (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Roy (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Lyle Giese (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Roy (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Wayne Wenthin (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Caruso, Anthony (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jason Chambers (Aug 14)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? - about the size of a strawberry Jayram Deshpande (Aug 14)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? Larry Sheldon (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jay Ashworth (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Seth Mattinen (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Dave Sparro (Aug 16)
- Re: How big is the Internet? bmanning (Aug 16)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Sean Donelan (Aug 16)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Seth Mattinen (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 15)