Packet size data
pkavi at pcmail.casc.com
pkavi at pcmail.casc.com
Tue Aug 12 13:44:10 UTC 1997
Justin,
Try the following web pointer maintained by the good folks at the
National Lab for Advanced Network Research (NLANR).
http://www.nlanr.net/NA/Learn/packetsizes.html
Lots of useful recent and historical information there (most recent is
a packet distribution recorded as of 6/25/97). The average packet
size passed 250 bytes over a year ago, and still seems to be rising
although I haven't calculated the exact value.
Prabhu Kavi
IP Business Marketing Manager
Ascend Communications
prabhu.kavi at ascend.com
508-952-1047
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Subject: Packet size data
Author: "Justin W. Newton" <justin at priori.net> at smtplink
Date: 8/11/97 11:23 AM
Hi,
Does anyone have any /recent/ information on the breakdown of packet
sizes
crossing the net right now? I have seen some of the older data, but am
interested in whether or not the percentages are changing over time, and if
so, how. I.e. I could see people moving from interactive services such as
telnet for reading mail and news to going to a client based system would up
the packet sizes. Likewise, the use of some of the streaming video and
audio applications out there might lower it again. In my mind, recent is
anything that has been done in the last 6 months or so.
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