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To: DownSouth who wrote (1252)	8/6/1999 8:30:00 PM
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Start-up companies plan to speed up the Net By John Borland and Corey Grice Staff Writers, CNET News.com August 5, 1999, 4:00 a.m. PT The trouble with a high-speed Internet connection is that the Net itself often isn't very fast. After years of hype, cable modems and telephone companies' digital subscriber lines (DSL) are finally making substantial inroads into consumer households. But even these turbocharged connections have an Achilles heel--if 2 million people try to download the latest Star Wars movie trailer at the same time, traffic jams on the Internet become a bottleneck, slowing down each user's connection speeds. Enter a new breed of company, which aims to bring the most popular content on the Web as close as possible to the user, eliminating the slowdowns created by passing the content through clogged Internet pipes. Using satellite feeds, content caching servers, traffic-routing software, and other technology, companies such as Akamai, SkyCache, and Edgix are vying to colonize what they call the "edge" of the Net with Web content. FULL TEXT @ technews.netscape.com