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To: EPS who wrote (28382)	8/18/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 74651

Victor, thank you for your post. Sorry that I cannot respond with specific reasons the bake-off technique was discredited. I am sure that if you are close to the sponsors you have much more information than I do, which is indirect and would be inappropriate for me to report. I hope that all will participate in the January bakeoff. It will be very interesting. Good investing and do tell Toy 'hello' for me.

To: EPS who wrote (28382)	8/18/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Thanks Victor, that was the site(s) I was referring to. In fact Downsouth, this whole valid/discredited argument was well discussed on the ISP discussion mailing distribution list. Very stimulating conversation Downsouth. Of course the Cisco employee spoke up that it was not valid and for some valid sounding arguments, but the actual ISP vendor posters discredited his arguments. The bakeoff was based on traffic volumes that represented a type of ISP traffic pattern. Of course they couldn't represent ALL potential traffic patterns that could possibly occur. The point was clearly made to the CISCO rep that this bake-off was the closest example of real-life testing that has been attempted and by a group that honestly wanted to find out which caching solutions were the highest performance and which were the highest price/performance. On the next round I am sure that CISCO's comments will be considered and I would be very happy to see INKT and CISCO be in this event. Finally, you hit the nail on the head when you said that a general purpose OS would not be as effective in the performance arena. Exactly the reason why NetWare performs so well in these tests and is an ideal caching OS. It is a special purpose OS and is primarily design for raw speed. It always has been. So Caching the Internet comes naturally to NetWare. So thanks for providing the main reason as to why Novell's ICS (a BorderManager FastCache spinoff) is head and shoulders faster than its competitors while running on standard Intel based technology. Toy