MM/YY ROUTES MM/YY ROUTES ADVERTISED ADVERTISED ------------------------ ----------------------- Dec-92 8561 Sep-90 1988 Nov-92 7854 Aug-90 1894 Oct-92 7354 Jul-90 1727 Sep-92 6640 Jun-90 1639 Aug-92 6385 May-90 1580 Jul-92 6031 Apr-90 1525 Jun-92 5739 Mar-90 1038 May-92 5515 Feb-90 997 Apr-92 5291 Jan-90 927 Mar-92 4976 Dec-89 897 Feb-92 4740 Nov-89 837 Jan-92 4526 Oct-89 809 Dec-91 4305 Sep-89 745 Nov-91 3751 Aug-89 650 Oct-91 3556 Jul-89 603 Sep-91 3389 Jun-89 564 Aug-91 3258 May-89 516 Jul-91 3086 Apr-89 467 Jun-91 2982 Mar-89 410 May-91 2763 Feb-89 384 Apr-91 2622 Jan-89 346 Mar-91 2501 Dec-88 334 Feb-91 2417 Nov-88 313 Jan-91 2338 Oct-88 291 Dec-90 2190 Sep-88 244 Nov-90 2125 Aug-88 217 Oct-90 2063 Jul-88 173 Table I : Growth in routing table size, total numbers Source for the routing table size data is MERIT