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To: Sung Q. Kim who wrote (30556)	2/15/1998 3:53:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

[bottlenecks] Sung -- Keynote Systems is one of the best test and measurements services available today and I believe their data is accurate. I saw them present at an ISP conference in San Francisco last year. The problems as listed below are all real and all being addressed by different companies. I'm certain Mark Lewin or srvhap could give examples of each. The major performance slowdowns occur in the Internet infrastructure, primarily at the on-ramps, off-ramps and interconnection, or switching, points between Internet providers where congestion and packet loss frequently occur. According to Barrick, significant Internet performance improvements require solutions in several areas: intelligent caching of popular web content much closer to user populations; duplicating popular web sites at multiple ''mirrored'' locations around the Internet; greater use of IP multicasting for distributing popular web content; increased implementation of private peering (interconnections) between backbone providers (there are more than 30 backbone providers in the U.S. alone); improved efficiency of peering at public interconnections such as MAE-West and MAE-East; performance-aware web site designs that minimize download times for users; and widespread adoption of HTTP version 1.1 in web servers and web browsers. By the time we here on the Internet are aware of the problem --- no matter what it is --- someone has already begun finding the answer. As investors, the challenge is to find who's doing what and determine whether they're leading their sector. Later -- Pat