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Re: Internet Backbone Traffic
John Blair <[email protected]> writes -
> 1) Where can I find an estimate of the mail volume on the net?
> 2) Are there any projections of internet usage (subscribers, mail users,
> etc.) over the next several years?
Vint Cerf, President of the Internet Society, projected some
interesting figures at ONE BBSCON in Colorado recently. According
to an article in the October BoardWatch magazine, ".....by December,
1993, there will be over 2 million ping-able hosts on some 46,000
registered IP networks in 22,000 registered domains strewn across some
91 countries. As of June, 1991, it is NOT primarily academic use, but
actually that was the crossover point where commercial use applications
exceeded academic use. Over 137 countries are now reachable via the
Internet domain name e-mail system via UUCP, and the NSFNet backbone
is now carrying some 7 TERABYTES of traffic per month. The Internet
overall is growing at a rate of 12% per MONTH."
You do the math. ,-)
Cheers.