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To: Sam Citron who wrote (250)	7/7/1997 1:26:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	of 383

Sam, no, they are not referring to cacheing. That is a separate issue. Cacheing likely saves them about 30% of their bandwidth out to the Internet. Cacheing is optional, and you can turn it on or off in your browser. (Use or don't use their proxy server.) I do find that pages that are in the cache come up significantly faster. Smaller operators simply don't have the "parallel Internet" option. Yes, there are significant barriers - my understanding is that @Home's backbone will be similar in size and reach to those of MCI and UUNet. There are very few companies that can undertake a backbone of that size.

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