New Strategic Internet Metrics

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

From: Tony Rutkowski <amr@isoc.org>


The NSF-NIS NSFNet statistics were released today.  A couple of developments
of some strategic significance:




A new traffic record was reached in the Internet world. Traffic on the NSF
backbone grew by a stunning 20.7 percent - nearly 2 terabytes - during the
month of March, for a new total of 11.226 Terabytes per month.  This is the
largest single jump in the history of the Internet.


The browsing services continue to grow at remarkable rates.  Gopher traffic
grew by 17.6 percent and http (WWW) grew by 32.9 percent to a new total of
one-half terabyte per month.  Indeed, http traffic grew by a total of 0.7
percent of total NSFNet traffic, and is now 5th in service rank after
ftp, telnet, netnews, and smtp mail.




The new statistics are embodied in the latest Internet Society
powerpoint graphs:


ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/charts/internet.ppt and browsing.ppt


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