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From Network Design for Internetworking Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
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

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