On 8/14/13 7:32 AM, 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).
I stumbled on (an) ANT the other day. Very interesting, esp. the part
about tracking the growth of Google. I've only made a cursory review
over some of the projects but I think it is somewhat relevant to your
research, and I'm sure there are many other similar .edu projects you
could cull together for a rough estimate.
http://ant.isi.edu/blog/
http://www.isi.edu/ant/index.html
OPTE seems to have gone stale, too bad. Mapping the internet in a
single day... instant gratification !
http://www.opte.org/status/
http://opte.org/history/
Regards,
--Jason
