On 2010-02-16, at 22:00, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> I am somewhat intrigued at this network you mention with which people have >> practical experience that has more nodes than the Internet does, though. >> That'd be quite a network. > > what's the current estimate on PSTN endpoints? 2-3B globally?
True, I was thinking about packet-switched networks, since it always seems to me that a circuit-switched network is only as big at any time as the number of circuits that exist, not the number of possible termination points for circuits. Quite possibly I'm just smoking crack, however. Joe
