[e2e] Re: crippled Internet

[Alhussein Abouzeid]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Fred Baker wrote:
> [...]
> But for simple bandwidth to result in
> guaranteeable QoS, one has to have significantly more bandwidth than
> required, on the order of 50% utilization at the busiest moment in the day.

Is this 50% the typical number you see in networks nowadays? I was
wondering what kind of statistics would result in this figure?
Heavy tailed distributions can render a utilization that is much less
than that?

Hussein.