Amazing Web Facts from Cerf... The Father Of The Internet...
I pulled this from an IBM Web newsletter... Quotes
Vint Cerf...
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There was too much to cover in this newsletter, but Dr. Cerf
presented some: Amazing Internet Facts
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35% of the potential U.S. market uses Internet
(Following based on MCI backbone:)
75% of the traffic on the Net is Web traffic
5% ftp, 5% email, 1% news, 1% DNS
2.1 million domains registered, at a rate of 150,000/month
1.5 million Web sites, with over
350 million Web pages (without counting "dark information")
29,600,000 hosts (NW Jan 1998) NW = Network Wizards
240 IP countries (NW Jan 1998)
70 million users (VC est. Jan. 1998)
Traffic growth is 100-1000% / year
7500 ISP's worldwide (4500 in US alone)
300M-1000M users by Dec 2000 (he says the lower figure is more likely)
7.5 million domains will be registered by 2001 at the current rate
By the 3rd quarter of 2001 the data traffic will equal the voice
traffic capacity (using one color of light). Using multiple colors
to transmit data fiber optic cables can easily handle much more.
The bottleneck is the routers. Every morning Vint says a little
prayer for a BFR. "Stands for Big Router :)"
Doug and friends went on to demonstrate what the next generation
Internet2 could do for us, and the increased bandwidth will allow
amazing collaboration, full screen real time video at 30 fps, full
immersion group virtual reality, telemedicine, and more.
"Collaboratories" was a term used and demonstrated by some of the
scientists involved. |
