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Statistics on Collected Data: Data by the Numbers
An overview of the data managed by CAIDA, including our passive trace, macroscopic topology, and security data collections. While the majority of CAIDA's datasets are represented here, these numbers represent a lower bound on the total data housed at CAIDA.

Data Collection Overview

Total number of datafiles265,023
Total sum of uncompressed data available105.9 TiB
Number of activated monitors43
Total number of IPv4 headers1,057,042,276,034
Total number of IPv6 headers58,925,389
Average daily increase of uncompressed data (last 365 days)44.5 GiB
Number of files collected each day (average over 365 days)68

Data Request Overview


Total submissions:1992
Earliest submission:February 4, 2003 13:25:51
Most recent submission:October 17, 2008 19:10:40
Students Using Data:2331 (average 1.17)
Dataset Chosen
Anonymized Internet Traces477
Macroscopic Topology Datasets418
Backscatter Datasets317
AS Relationships Dataset304
Skitter AS Links Dataset218
Witty Worm Dataset85
Code-Red Worms Dataset66
Witty Worm Public Dataset40
IPv4 Routed /24 AS Links Dataset38
DNS root/gTLD RTT Dataset28

Statistics on All Data Requests

Statistics on Requests for Freely Available Data

Statistics on Requests for Restricted Access Data

Data Collection by Type

Passive Data Collection

Earliest data August 14, 2002
Latest data (collection is ongoing) January 15, 2009
Total number of datafiles 3,665
Total sum of uncompressed data available 6.339 TiB

Security Data Collection

Earliest data February 1, 2001
Latest data (collection is ongoing) November 19, 2008
Total number of datafiles 82,210
Total sum of uncompressed data available 91.58 TiB

Macroscopic Topology Data Collection

All From Skitter infrastructure From Archipelago infrastructure
Earliest data January 18, 1998 January 18, 1998 September 13, 2007
Latest data (collection is ongoing) March 13, 2009 February 8, 2008 March 13, 2009
Total number of datafiles 86,282 70,886 15,396
Total sum of uncompressed data available 5.151 TiB 4.012 TiB 1.139 TiB

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