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Re: TCP over ATM

Allen Robel <allen@nwnet.net> Tue, 13 July 1993 13:35 UTC

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From: Allen Robel <allen@nwnet.net>
Subject: Re: TCP over ATM
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Criag wrote:

> Now's there's work that shows that the law of large numbers doesn't
> apply to data traffic -- so aggregate traffic between routers is not
> smooth.  Rather, there's reason to believe that data traffic is fractal,
> it has the same general shape regardless of amounts being aggregated.

I'll have to look at this paper but, from looking at campus traffic
between 10-12 routers on an FDDI ring (each router supporting 10 or so
subnets) I have not noticed this behavior. 

allen

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