Was just looking into BGP, which is a tool for routing between networks, there are a bunch of tools that can be used to analyse it etc;
http://www.bgp4.as/tools
One in particular has a rank of the various networks by theire "cone size" (number of their direct and indirect customers), of the Australian Telco's
|
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Column 4 |
1 |
AU Rank |
Company |
Global Rank |
"Cone" size |
2 |
1 |
Telstra |
37 |
1403 |
3 |
2 |
Vocus |
44 |
974 |
4 |
3 |
Optus |
59 |
654 |
5 |
4 |
TPG |
70 |
550 |
6 |
5 |
iiNet |
75 |
522 |
7 |
6 |
Micron21 |
184 |
183 |
8 |
7 |
Superloop |
246 |
132 |
9 |
8 |
AARNET |
273 |
117 |
10 |
9 |
Colocation Australia |
387 |
83 |
11 |
10 |
Nextgen |
394 |
82 |
Compiled from
http://as-rank.caida.org/asns
By this measure we have very good network, not as good as Telstra, by clearly better than Optus and TPG/iiNet.
I guess Superloop have some work to do to make good use of indigo.
Im not sure why the separate entries for Vocus/Nextgen and TPG/iiNet, it could be a sign they arent properly integrated yet, in Vocus's case, government contracts are often done under Nextgen, not sure why, or why TPG/iiNet are still separate.
(It might be interesting to compare it over time)