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From: stjohns@umd5.umd.edu (Mike St. Johns)
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Subject: Re: Milnet
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Date: 6 May 91 22:12:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: tli@cisco.com's message of 6 May 91 09:09:29 GMT

On the subject of complexity in the MILNET...

The MILNET consists of approximately 230 BBN C30/C300 packet switching
nodes generally connected by 56KBit trunks.  When I left DDN about 18
months ago, the average number of trunks per node was somewhere
between 3 and 4 - in other words, somewhere between 345 and 460 trunk
circuits.  Contrast this with about 25 nodes and 40 trunk circuits for
the NSF backbone.  

Later, Mike