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To: DownSouth who wrote (18485)	2/23/2000 6:43:00 PM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

DS Part of CFLO's claim is deployment closer to the end user, which is AKAM's turf really. AKAM also has some very juicy patents in this area and pretty much own the space for now. Until someone comes up with a better algorithm. Perhaps something like LU with its fabled Bell Labs (which owns a ton of algorithms for transportation problems.) The other half of the CFLO claim -- caching "dynamic" content on a box co-located at the ISP -- does not seem good enough to me, but I may be spoilt. There are 63,000 different ways of caching content, right from the Netscape proxy server down to caching on the webserver. So, why CFLO ? beats me. Perhaps if we know who their customers are and how they deploy it, we could take a guess. Service v/s product -- I suppose it matters to the GG hunter :-) I tend to think of AKAM as a product company -- selling a rather neat algorithm. As an end user, it's just a solution. I am also told that it's fairly simple to zap out Akamai and zip in whatever is next. Small sample, but large sites. FWIW. Regards Dinesh