| Data traffic is not at all like voice traffic. |
| For one thing, it is MUCH more variable, both in duration and in information rate. |
| Data is broken into autonomous packets that are transmitted independently of one another. |
| The control is by packet-switching: the routers look at the source and the destination, and find the best path for each packet, using all available bandwidth. |
| If I access the TicketMaster website, my message is broken up into a collection of little packets that travel from here to Chicago much as a swarm of bees might - the same general direction, but individual paths can be unrelated. |
Return to the fractal nature of internet traffic.