Re: expansion of cyberspace

From: Brendan Coffey (bmc@section9.net)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 11:06:01 MDT

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    I'd be curious as to how much the expanded use of NAT in home and
    small business networks is contributing to this slowdown in growth.
    For example, my apartment has 6 net-connected hosts behind a single IP,
    two of which are providing services to outside hosts. Many of my friends
    and professional associates have similar setups.

    -bmc

    On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:43:42PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
    > http://makara.phys.cmu.edu/~kavan/cyberspace/
    >
    > Not enough lambda!
    >
    > < I concluded in 1998 that the average rate of exponential growth of the
    > Internet hosts was almost a constant and it remained so for the next
    > 2-years. There seems to be a clear slow-down of growth in the most recent
    > years, reflecting probably what has been happening recently to the dot-com
    > industry. The number of hosts grew by only 16.5% in the first half of 2002
    > very much less than the average 85% per year seen over the decade from 1990
    > to 2000. >
    >



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