IP-Internets

Thu Oct 14 21:53:22 UTC 1999

Tim Salo <salo at 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