Request for Comments (2)
Current Status of Campus Network
- number of computers, backbone network utilization (bps)
- networking technologies (FDDI, ATM, Ethernet, Token Ring)
- overall architecture of the network, number of subnets
- number and type of routers, Internet connection
- bottlenecks, dialup connections
Driving Forces for Change
- growing number of nodes, faster desktop computers
- growing number of servers, fatter applications
- services cannot be centralized,
- increasing importance of the Internet
- compound documents (text, graphics), multimedia