Subject:  08/25/96--Internet Traffic Jams
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BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE
Transcript of Aug. 25, 1996, conference

INTERNET TRAFFIC JAMS

Business Week's Aug. 26 issue featured a story, "Has the Net Finally Reached the Wall?", on the traffic jams resulting from Net overload. The Aug. 25 guest in this event was Peter Coy, technology editor of Business Week and author of that story.

A sample from the transcript:
BobABW:	Peter, here's the first audience question, from RuffnBuff.
Question:  Won't any bottleneck on the Internet be eventually alleviated by fiber optics?

PeterCoyBW:  No, it's not that simple -- because bandwidth is only one problem. There's also, for instance, the problem of router capacity. And server capacity. That's just to name two things. In fact, if you fill up the pipelines more, you'll notice the problems at the end points even more.