[TriLUG] The thin line...

[Andrew Ball]

Good point :-) I've just heard that number, but don't have a source to back
it up.
Any odd number needs a study or two to back it up ...


Peace.
Andrew

On 10/6/06, Aaron S. Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>
> Andrew Ball wrote:
>
> > ...Also, over 90% of TCP traffic goes through mainframes...
>
> I think it's reasonably safe to call the bluff on that statistic.
> Probably well upwards of 30% of all TCP traffic is HTTP these days*, and
> last time I checked Apache accounts for around 62.52% of all web
> servers, Microsoft products another 30.13%, together around 93%**.  Just
> from looking at the rough numbers there, even if I'm high balling the
> HTTP numbers (probably not by much, if at all), then that's 25%+ that
> isn't touching a main frame at all.  The traffic goes straight from a
> client, likely through some appliance NAT router of theirs, into a cable
> or DSL modem, through an access device at the other end onto Ethernet,
> through a crap-load of routers, and eventually to a switch and some
> random unix/ms server*** on the other end, and back again.  Another
> interesting argument is that I've seen a lot of reports lately that p2p
> traffic is consuming crazy percentages of all internet traffic these
> days, some say as high as 60 to 75%.  I think those are exagerated
> numbers, but I'd believe 40% or more.  I am not even aware of any p2p
> apps for OS360, or anything even resembling a mainframe.  :)
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
> * - Alert: Conservative wild flaming guess.  Couldn't easily find any
> trustworthy statistics here.
> ** - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
> *** - Don't even try the "these are virtual instances on z-series
> mainframes" angle, no way there's any sizable percentage of websites on
> such a platform, see Netcraft again.
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