[e2e] number of flows per unit time in routers

[Irek Szczesniak]

 > I've spent this afternoon reading through the literature on flows
 > and can't seem to find anything that tries to characterize how many
 > flows actually pass through a router per second or minute or hour.

I was looking for something similar: the number of TCP flows that pass
thought a single wavelength in a backbone network.

So far I only found that a 40Gb/s router can handle tens of millions
of flows.  Here is the article:

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=63606


HTH & best,
Irek