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Re: customers and web servers and level one naps

  • From: Peter Lothberg
  • Date: Thu Sep 05 21:18:52 1996 
[...snip]
> brought there by the customer.  therefor should it really make any
> difference to have the web traffic avoid the extra hops of
> traversing the local loop?

The local loop could be dark fiber running FDDI or 
OC3 packet-over-sonet, in the latter case the NAP is the bottleneck, 
not the local_loop.

> what am I missing?

Hummm.. Tempting...

--Peter
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