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Four Cheap Ways to Speed Up the Internet

CACHES
Huge repositories of Web pages that networks store locally

LOAD BALANCING
Distributing requests for data among many servers

TOLL ROADS
Letting people pay more for high-quality service

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
Scheduling Net business when traffic is light


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