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IP traffic growing exponentially!
- IP traffic between US and Sweden greater than 10 times the total voice+FAX traffic
Fixed Links - arbitarily fast; Points of Presence (PoPs) + CIX and GIX ==> GigaPoPs
LAN based infrastructures, LAN interfaces, ... very high volumes (10s of millions in 1997)!
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Important standards: TCP/IP v4 & v6, Frame relay, ADSL + IDSL ==> VDSL, Mobile-IP, IPsec, ...
Therefore: LANs, LANs, and more LANs - interconnected into internets/intranets/extranets/...