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To: DownSouth who wrote (2194)	2/15/2000 1:48:00 PM
From: StockHawk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

The importance of caching to Internet speed: I just read an article in the 2/00 issue of Communications News that explains how important caching is in efforts to speed up the Internet. (note: the author is Greg Govatos, Marketing Director for CacheFlow.) He states: Web pages are composed of many objects. To download a single object requires two requests/confirms. Data can travel about 100,000 miles per second across fiber (that's 60% of the speed of light). So if a user in London wants info from a web page in Atlanta (5000 miles away) that contains 50 objects then 100 round trips or 1 million miles must be crossed. That would take 10 seconds, before considering Internet traffic and router hops. He argues that increasing bandwidth will not solve the problem, but local caching will. StockHawk