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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Jack Rickard wrote: ==>Not an entirely whacky concept actually. The way hot potato routing works, ==>this could actually be a "purer" test I suspect of the network internally ==>and a purer test of connectivity of any network to all others cum Internet. The article says that you're measuring backbone provider performance, yet you're including: * carrier's web server location * carrier's web server performance ==>Keynote does a "Top 40" study of 40 popular web sites and I believe they ==>make the results available on their web site. It is interesting to observe ==>performance variations of the network as a whole over time. Other than ==>that, we don't have much interest in it. It is indicative of no specific ==>network, but of the Internet in general. /cah
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