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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (34535)	5/1/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 77400

Here's some of Metcalfe's more famous predictions: magpage.com; Well, he was half-way right on one point: "* Capacity. You've read that the Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear war, but it's repeatedly been brought to its knees, its circuits choked, for example, by the reaction to one measly jury verdict in Los Angles. The Internet is intermittently overloaded, and the TCP/IP architecture doesn't deal well with overloads. Furthermore, the Internet's naive flat-rate business model is incapable of financing the new capacity it would need to serve continued growth, if there were any, but there won't be, so no problem." One problem with the Internet is that it's often overloaded. However, a CSCO, GLW, JDSU, etc, investor should consider that good...