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Hardware

CPU Evolution
From Uniprocessor Sparc 10
To Five Challenge S's + One Multiprocessor DM

Disk
Disk is always the bottleneck

RAM
Netscape Proxy RAM hungry - but depends on bandwidth

Network
Distribution across multiple sites
Increases available bandwidth
Improves resilience


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