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Re: IP-Internets
- From: Robert E. Seastrom
- Date: Thu Oct 14 17:55:43 1999
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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