On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:27 AM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Christopher Morrow > <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:07 AM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: >>> As much as I'd love for >>> Verizon to offer BGP directly over FIOS there are fewer than 40,000 >> >> I'm curious as to your number... where is that from? >> Marhsall had noted a number of 'small businesses' in the US at ~1.4m >> as of ~2006ish? > > Hi Chris, > > Lacking any reason to believe otherwise, I estimate the number of BGP > users at reasonably close to the number of autonomous systems in the > Internet BGP table. Technically that doesn't have to be true... but > given the debugging nuissance associated with private AS numbers and > the trivial ease and cost with which an AS is registered it seems > likely to me.
I know that 701 had many 'private' (AS7046) customer peerings than public... it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that other networks have the same situation. I think Marshall's numbers were based on some small-business-SEC thing, it'd be nice if he piped up with where he got the number though :(
