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No, but they would make quite a song and dance, and it would be interesting to watch. You see, while 10% of traffic may be corporate VPNs...
I looked a lot at that when I ran the systems for a large ISP.
I was suprised to see X.25 alive and well, with thousands of virtual XOT connections going all over the place, all running on top of the Internet. Around 1.5% of total traffic, and consistent with traffic volumes the old X.25 networks used to have. So, X.25 didn't go away; it just used the Internet.
There are hundreds of things like this that run on top of the Internet, and work just fine in the shadows of the flashy stuff.
some of it is similar to automobiles, ... in the 40s and 50s, there was a large percentage of individuals (with automobiles) doing their own work ... after market modifications, service, etc. in the 70s & 80s, automobiles...
Around 10% of traffic is now VPN's, and the share is growing. Webbing is soon below half. Media streams are growing by leaps and bounds.
And the 'old stuff' like telnet (or ssh these days), ftp-sftp, news etc defend their share well. It just keeps running in a corner of the Internet.
The PHBs that think they control the Internet may be totally clueless that this stuff even exists. It may be a wise choice to let them remain clueless.
You can download databases we would have end for as recently as 1995. You can download media handling systems that blow your mind. You can get a large telephone switch up with just software.
It is all there for the taking.
-- mrr
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