Internet Mapping

CAIDA Internet Graph


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CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. For more information click here.


Physical Structure - MBone Topology


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A map of the MBone topology in August 1996. The map was produced by Elan Amir, Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, USA

IP Mapping

The work of Stephen Coast in measuring and mapping the structure and performance of the global Internet. These are two of his early results:


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Map of the net, 32,000 nodes. The dense areas are the US upper left, uk lower middle. Countries dotted around. The orange branch top-right is germany etc. The mass of green are .net hosts. For more information click here.


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3-D renders (without electro charge). Radius of sphere proportional to number of edges it has. For more information click here.


The Opte Project


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The goal of the Opte Project, started by Barrett Lyon, is to use a single computer and single Internet connection to map the location of every single class C network on the Internet. For more information click here.


Internet Mapping Project - Major ISP's


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The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. Its long-term goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory. For more information click here.


Gnutella Network


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Snapshot of a local gnutella peer network in a particular neighbourhood.


MIDS Map of the Internet World - Data from July 1999


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MIDS (Matrix Internet and Directory Services) is a research consultancy of John S. Quarterman, based in Austin, Texas. Quarterman, writer of "The Matrix", published the first maps of the whole Internet, conducted the first Internet Demographic Survey and started the first continuing series of performance data about the entire Internet in 1993. For more information click here.