On Jun 27, Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> wrote:
in your scenario, customers are considered secondary to having great performance on the corporate home page...sounds like a good way to loose customers, but a great way to look good on some contrived and ambiguous benchmark.
I am certain that there are people at many backbones who are currently planning out how to do exactly this. So, even if the Keynote results can be contrived to have any validity now, such validity will be diminished in a very short order by such techniques as distributed mirrors, "intrusive" cacheing, and probably a lot of things that most of us have never really thought about before this. *********************************************************************** J.D. Falk voice: +1-415-482-2840 Supervisor, Network Operations fax: +1-415-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net "The People You Know. The People You Trust." ***********************************************************************