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Re: [v6tc] Issue 1: Could we live with UDP encapsulation always on?

Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM> Fri, 17 December 2004 13:24 UTC

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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:14:15 -0800
From: Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [v6tc] Issue 1: Could we live with UDP encapsulation always on?
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On Dec 17, 2004, at 3:35 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> The issue is not so much speed but money. If there is a 7-10% 
>> overhead,
>> this is not insignificant, regardless of bandwidth.
>
> In general for 'office/home environments' aka webbrowsing and alike, it
> seems the trend is that packet length distribution is that about 40% of
> the packets is between the 0-400 size. the other 60% is in between
> 400-1200 with only relatively few packetlengths in tehe 1200-1400 
> range,
> one will have a peak for the 1500 size, thus completely full packets.
> On average, from the couple of graphs that I have I would estimate the
> packetlength to be around 600 bytes/packet.

This is very good data. However, VoIP has the potential to change this 
picture a lot.
 From what I'm told, the payload is typically 44 bytes...

	- Alain.


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