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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3308
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 12:35 am: | 
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http://blogs.cio.com/node/209
Quote:What is this ball of colors? It is the North American Internet, or more specifically a map of just about every router on the North American backbone, (there are 134,855 of them for those who are counting). The colors represent who each router is registered to. Red is Verizon; blue AT&T; yellow Qwest; green is major backbone players like Level 3 and Sprint Nextel; black is the entire cable industry put together; and gray is everyone else, from small telecommunications companies to large international players who only have a small presence in the U.S. If you click on the map it will take you to much bigger version complete with labels that tell you the address of many of the routers....
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Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1511
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:28 am: |
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I thought Al Gore owned the internet? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14408
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:51 am: |
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I worked at Bell Labs, and I remember when Ches and his summer intern made the first map like that. I believe it was the intern's idea, which ended up being useful for so many other things.
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Case
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Username: Case
Post Number: 1662
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:52 pm: |
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This is very cool. Did you guys notice the non-routeable addresses all over this map? It's a very, very interesting map - thanks for posting it. I've never seen one before (which is odd - I feel like I should have, by now). |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14438
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 8:33 am: |
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It was a real prize when they gave you a poster size map of the internet. Even though it was always changing, having one was cool, because it looks so organic.
The guys who invented (though you could almost say "discovered") this decided this would be a useful, marketable tool and spun Lumeta off from Lucent, giving it some seed money. I'm not sure if Lumeta is profitable yet. One useful service they provide is finding unknown holes in a company's network. For instance, when an employee hooks up a modem to a computer that is already on the company ethernet, it could become a gateway that bypasses the firewall. The employee doesn't know how stupid his action is. Big companies with big networks don't really know what their own networks are shaped like.
http://www.lumeta.com
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TarPit Coder
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Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 76
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 12:08 pm: |
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I used to have one of those maps on my wall. It was a crazy insane thing to look at. It's the organic 'living' look of the thing that is really cool.
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