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blog: World Internet Topology by AT&T Labs

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This numbers are amazing!

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  • AT&T’s rank number one among broadband providers in the United States
  • 9.81 Petabytes of data transmitted across AT&T’s networks on an average business day. It is the equivalent of moving the entire written contents of the Library of Congress every three minutes.
  • 12.9 Million AT&T broadband customers in America.
  • 540,000 Miles of Internet backbone fiber AT&T owns and operates.
  • $6 Billion Amount AT&T will spend by 2008 to bring fiber optics deeper into neighborhoods.
  • 36 AT&T Internet data centers around the world.
  • 301,760 AT&T employees worldwide.
  • 97% Percentage of the world economy reached by AT&T’s networks.
  • 99.998% AT&T’s network reliability.
  • 49,000 Number of Wi-Fi hotspots AT&T provides or enables.
  • 166 Number of United States cities where AT&T offers 3G wireless High-Speed Internet access
  • 3 Million AT&T wireless business data subscribers.
  • 160% Increase in bandwidth demand per AT&T user between June 2004 and October 2006.
  • 7 Nobel Prizes awarded for innovations developed at the AT&T Bell Labs.
  • 2 is the average number of new patent applications AT&T files – every day.
  • 48 Million Users on the Internet in 1995. (Source: IDC)
  • 1.133 Billion Internet users in 2006. (Source: Internet World Stats)
  • 6.4 Million New Internet users getting online every month. (Source: Internet World Stats)
  • 1.6 Billion Email boxes in use in 2006. (Source: IDC)
  • 40 Million New DNS Hosts every year. (Source: Internet Systems Consortium)
  • 35,000 Web pages it takes to equal the amount of data transferred when a user downloads 1 HD movie. (Source: Craig Moffett)
  • 100 Million YouTube videos downloaded every day. (Source: YouTube)
  • 161 Exabytes of new electronic data created every year. (Source: IDC)
  • 12 Million Miles of new fiber deployed in 2006. (Source: Telecommunications Industry Association)
  • 15 Million Miles of new fiber to be deployed
    annually by 2009. (Source: Telecommunications Industry Association)
  • $72.5 Billion Annual spending in support of network infrastructure in the United States by 2009. (Source: Telecommunications Industry Association)

The following map represents the backbone of the Internet as of August 2007. Each line depicts the shortest outgoing route from a test computer to each of more than 320,000 network nodes around the world. The map does not represent the physical or geographic location of servers, but rather is a topological representation of the various networks that combine to form the Internet. It shows the incredible number of interconnected networks owned and maintained by private companies. These networks combine to form the world Internet backbone infrastructure. This map is a product of the Internet Mapping Project. It was compiled and created by Bill Cheswick and Steven North at AT&T Labs Research, using technology and methods developed by the Lumeta Corporation.