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To: cm who wrote (6363)	6/2/1998 9:23:00 PM
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Amazing Web Facts from Cerf... The Father Of The Internet... I pulled this from an IBM Web newsletter... Quotes Vint Cerf... ****** There was too much to cover in this newsletter, but Dr. Cerf presented some: Amazing Internet Facts ---------------------- 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.