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CONTROLLING TRAFFIC ON THE NET
 
Cisco Systems, along with Sun Microsystems, Informix Corp., Netcom Online
Communication Services and others, is backing technology developed by
Tibco Inc. that is designed to ease data gridlock on the Internet.
Tibco's technology moves an e-mail message through the Internet pipeline,
and then replicates it at the end of the process for multiple
distribution, rather than the current broadcasting system that
simultaneously sends thousands of messages to thousands of individuals.
The consortium plans to submit a proposal to the Internet Engineering Task
Force next year to adopt Tibco's technology as a nonproprietary standard.
"We're trying to solve the mass-market dissemination problem," says
Cisco's chief technology officer.  "If you replicate things 100,000 times
or a million times, the Internet dies.  It's as simple as that."
(Wall Street Journal 9 Dec 96 B8)
 
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