How many data packets are there in cyberspace?
October 11, 2010 9:26 AM Subscribe
How many data packets are transmitted (within a certain period of time) across the Internet?
I'm interested in (scientific) estimations of the average amount of data packets (tcp, udp, whatever...) that are transmitted simultaneously via Internet (or, more generally, interconnected IP-based networks) within a certain time period. I could not find any numbers so far - your help is very much appreciated!
I'm interested in (scientific) estimations of the average amount of data packets (tcp, udp, whatever...) that are transmitted simultaneously via Internet (or, more generally, interconnected IP-based networks) within a certain time period. I could not find any numbers so far - your help is very much appreciated!
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According to Scott Hebert, a sysadmin, the "average packet size for [a sample of ~264 billion packets] was 557 bytes."
Going on those figures, we've got an average of about 31,048,155,475,760,000 packets per month. Round to 30 quadrillion for an easy number to quote. But I don't think it's possible to get numbers that are anywhere near accurate, so this is a very, very rough estimate.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 10:13 AM on October 11, 2010