hmm, unprecedented that.. who'd have thought it huh? ground breaking stuff jeezus glad they invested the time and energy On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Irwin Lazar wrote:
FYI: Bell Labs recently conducted an analysis of the nature of Internet traffic. Some pretty interesting findings.
http://Networking.ittoolbox.com/browse.asp?c=NetworkingNews&r=/news/dispnews .asp?i=44100
Through the use of sophisticated new software programs that analyzed and simulated data traffic in "unprecedented detail," Bell Labs researchers found that the "burstiness" seen in traffic at the edges of the Internet disappears at the core. The discovery that traffic on heavily loaded, high-capacity network links is unexpectedly regular may point the way to more efficient system and network designs with better performance at lower cost, Bell Labs said.
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