Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2984)	2/28/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: WTC	Respond to of 12823

When I see articles anticipating the collapse of the internet backbones, I ask myself why Inktomi has had no more success in telling the story of local caching. With hard drive storage costs at an incredible all time low, with software more and more sophisticated for supporting local caching (say, at the ISP), and with that model working well in places where the backbone costs are now passed to the user, like Australia and New Zealand, why no credibility for caching? It seems to me that widespread cache implementation may well make economic sense based on non-peered internet interconnect, and it may well make service sense, as a way to deliver performance commensurate with the newer very fast last mile access technologies (How else are you going to reliably enjoy the multi-megabit cable modem or xDSL pipe you bought?) Is there a problem with local caching that I am missing? Or does it stand between internet users today and the hearlded abyss of the internet tomorrow? I suppose the other obvious question: As Internet2 picks up more and more traffic, is most of this traffic new to the internet, of does it represent significant deloading of the public internet? And what is significant -- might it be all told the equivalent of 3 months of growth? Not much help there ...