Monday, September 10, 2007

Andrew Odlyzko writes to inform us that the Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies (MINTS) web site is now open. Among the treasure trove of data and connections, observations and assertions regarding growth rates, I found the following comment and external links to sites with relevant information about Internet traffic:

Links to other sites with relevant information about Internet
Traffic volumes are a very crude measure of the state of the Internet. Investment is driven by profits, and those have only a slight relation to traffic. (As just one example, mobile voice telephony has at least twice the number of users that broadband Internet does, far more revenues, and substantial profits, and, on balance, may very well have had a larger impact on the economy than the Internet. Yet mobile voice volumes are small.) Thus one should bear in mind many other measurement aspects of the Internet and other telecommunications services that are relevant. Here are links to some sites that are of interest (with more to come later):

• CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, provides a wide variety of detailed and scientifically validated studies of Internet traffic.
• PCH, Packet Clearing House, a source of extensive data about Internet exchanges and global network development.
• FCC, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, publishes a range of statistics for U.S. telecommunications.
• Invisible Hand Networks provides bandwidth market data.
• Renesys provides information on Internet connectivity.
• DSL Prime is a newsletter on broadband trends.
• Internet World Stats provides usage and population statistics.
• Akamai monitor of network quality (lacks hard data)
• Internet Traffic Report is another monitor of network quality.

I think there will be a lot of talk about MINTS in the halls outside the meeting rooms at next month’s Internet Measurement Conference in San Diego.
[tags]Andrew Odlyzko, MINTS[/tags]

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