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