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RE: Bell Labs' Discovery May Lead to Efficient Networks

  • From: Deron J. Ringen
  • Date: Thu Jun 07 12:46:14 2001 
>
> 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=/new
> s/dispnews
> .asp?i=44100
>

This is nothing too new.  We have seen for quite some time that the greater
the aggregate the less bursty it is.  Usage of T3 and above links seem to
pretty stable.  It seems that aggregation of a certain number of bursty
flows produces a predictable traffic pattern.

...djr...