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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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