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2.12.5 Summary
Web caching improves performance by a reasonable factor, dependent on situation
Pro-active content distribution can reduce latency and improve bandwidth usage for popular services
BitTorrent can improve bandwidth usage by spreading load across peers.
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Ian Wakeman 2005-02-22