Understanding Traffic Patterns - What

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Understanding Traffic Patterns - Whats really
going on with Internet traffic?(125PM-300PM)

• Andrew Odlyzko (UofMinnesota)
• Internet Traffic Growth Trends
• Eve Schooler (Intel)
• Inside the Forbidden City end-host traffic
  inside a modern enterprise

CFP Meeting hosted by Cisco San Jose, Ca January
21-22, 2008
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Why this session?
Lots of important questions that require good
empirical traffic data!

• Policy Business Strategy
• Q Is there a BB investment problem?
• P2P/YouTube traffic implications? Is US lagging
  rest of world?
• What resources are scarce? Cost recovery
  problems?
• Q How is end-user traffic changing (per user
  in aggregate)?
• Network architecture? Service provisioning?
  Traffic models?
• Q Need for QoS? NN/open access regulation?
  Digital divide?

• New World
• Network of networks distributed/decentralized
  management
• Massive data sets always on, always connected,
  multimedia traffic
• Competitive markets (not PTTs anymore)
• Need verifiable (public) data for regulatory
  market efficiency

• What to observe? Who to observe? Timing
  (frequency)?
• How to observe? (How to share it?)
• What research questions do we want to work on in
  CFP???