Chapter 6. Connectivity
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“Connectivity” is a buzzword used in Internet circles to refer to the ability of computers to link to networks, and therefore to the Internet. This chapter deals with the bandwidth aspect of connectivity, i.e., the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. Although this chapter does not provide a complete education on connectivity and bandwidth, it does provide the information you will need to make an intelligent connectivity decision.
The first step is to estimate the amount of bandwidth you will need to feed data from your web server to your customers.
Bandwidth (in the Internet context) is the number of bits per unit ...
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