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