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RE: How many ISPs are out there?
- From: Roeland Meyer
- Date: Tue Jul 24 10:26:52 2001
That wouldn't constitute a complete answer because there are MANY local ISPs
that aggregate under a regional. Also, not all regionals (yes, I've found
some exceptions <Qwest?>) use BGP either. Then there is the old route
pre-fixing problem. Not many ISPs, smaller than /19, are going to be doing
effective ASN's either.
> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
> [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:21 AM
>
> how many active ASN's are there?
>
>
> >
> >
> > I was actually thinking along IAP (Internet Access
> Provider) lines. But,
> > most folks lump ISPs and IAPs in the same breath.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Adam Rothschild [mailto:asr@latency.net]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:09 PM
> > > To: Roeland Meyer
> > > Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > > Subject: Re: How many ISPs are out there?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:37:01PM -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > > > Is there a site that can give me that info?
> > >
> > > When in doubt, ask Jeeves:
> > >
> > > <http://www.ask.com/main/askjeeves.asp?ask=How+many+ISPs+are+o
> > > ut+there%3F>
> > >
> > > What exactly is an ISP anyways?
> > >
> > > -a
> > >
> >
>
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