Map: What Does the Internet Look Like?

Why China has as many IP addresses as an American university, which ISP should be called "Spamalot," and more.

By Stephen Ornes
Oct 30, 2006 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:07 AM
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Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis

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Information moving through cyberspace travels in tiny packets that hopscotch around the world. Using data from a two-week stretch in April 2005, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) traced these packets' paths from hub to hub and country to country to capture a snapshot of the worldwide network topology.

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