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Re: IP-Internets


From: rs () seastrom com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 14 Oct 1999 17:53:22 -0400



Tim Salo <salo () networkcs com> writes:

   From the ATM Forum Board of Directors Report - Rome, Italy, April 23,1999:
   
   ... Fred [Baker, chair of the IETF] stated that 75% of all Internet traffic
   today touches an ATM device and acknowledged the importance of the role
   of ATM in providing traffic engineering in today's networks. ...

I don't really know where this number comes from nor whether it is
really true.

99.9% of all Internet traffic touches an Ethernet device.  To follow
Fred Baker's line of reason, this presents irrefutable proof that that
Ethernet is an appropriate technology for building one's backbone
network.

                                        ---Rob





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