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These slides are pretty awesome.  Jump to slides 30 and 31 for a really simple visual explanation of why traffic burstiness occurs naturally on essentially all kinds of networks (packets, cars, and trains).

http://www.pollere.net/Pdfdocs/QrantJul06.pdf

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