Density maps of the internet

Paul Boz

I'm bored at work so I thought I'd share some images that I thought you guys may find interesting. They really put into perspective the concept of a global internet.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Internet_map_1024.jpg

http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/pics/ascoreApr2005.png

http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_internet/images/internet-map-2001_1088px.gif


Mind you they're a year or two old, but shouldn't be very inaccurate.

Enjoy.

Webmaster

Cool, thanks for sharing. Especially the first one is real piece of art.

I [edit: now really] moved the topic to the Off-Topic forum as I'm sure this is interesting for non-CCNA students as well.

Darthn3ss

nice.

i'd like to see someone draw out that topology. lol

Paul Boz

Here are a few density maps of the IPv6 internet for comparison. Mind you this map is from 2005 and the IPv6 internet has grown substantially in Asia over the last two years.

This map is courtesy of Tiscali.

http://www.tiscali.cz/tisk/images/Tnet_Topology-Map-CAIDA.jpg

Here's a map of the IPv6 internet with addressing added.

http://research.lumeta.com/ksiil/Projects/inet6/FirstMap/Internet6FirstMap-letter.png

And here is a comparison of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet (which is my dual wallpaper at work).

http://www.vsix.net/other/guide/ipv6_topology_map/ascore_ipv4-ipv6.gif

Netstudent

That first one looks like a galaxy of data. COOL!

5no-yt

thats so cool!!

$100 goes to the first person who can point out where i am on the first pic

Its gotta be one of the far little points all by itself being in New Zealand n all.

keatron

Darthn3ss wrote:

nice.

i'd like to see someone draw out that topology. lol

Mikej could do it in about 2 minutes..

Darthn3ss

this is probably a dumb question. b ut how on earth do we connect to other continents? is there some big pipe running through the pacific and atlantic? lol

Netstudent

Yes, underwater fiber lines. A buddy of mine did an IN-Class presentation of it and it's actually pretty neat how they lay it and maintain it. They are ran through these pipes on the sea floor.
The pipes are actually flexible. When they need to repair it they have a robot that goes down and grabs the line and pulls it up. They are ran from point to point in various locations throughout the ocean. I read something a while back about AT&T extending its MPLS network all the way to India and Vietnam. I thought that was pretty cool too.

manic

Thats so cool! I never thought about it.