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Fractals Reemerge in the New Math of the Internet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sun Sep 27 03:32:46 1998

Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 09:21:40 +0200
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>

Worth reading: 

Fractals Reemerge in the New Math of the Internet
by Gary Taubes
Science Magazine, Volume 281, Number 5385 Issue of 25 Sep 1998, pp. 1947 - 1948

Vern Paxson mentioned a number of times.  AT&T researchers have shown that
IP traffic over the Internet is fractal in nature.  Could be soon we will
have an Internet Erlang value.

-Hank


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