[25485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP-Internets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Oct 14 17:56:37 1999
To: Tim Salo <salo@networkcs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 14 Oct 1999 17:53:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: Tim Salo's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:24:33 -0500 (CDT)"
Message-ID: <877lkpbodp.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
