In time, packet networks will almost entirely replace more expensive and less capable circuit-switched networks.

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Akamai parks data locally to cut microseconds from the travel time each packet takes to get to where it needs to be.

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Satellite, surprisingly, came out as having the best throughput although before you rush out to get satellite service remember that the roundtrip latency (the time it takes a data packet to go from your PC to its destination and for an acknowledgement to come back) over a satellite connection is often in the range of 900 milliseconds to 1, 400 milliseconds.

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But it can deliver that smaller packet of data with a shorter turn around time (two hours instead of as much as two weeks) and the entry cost is low enough that scientists who have shied away from DNA sequencing could buy their own PGM.

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But given what Qwest and Level 3 are spending to build smaller packet-switched businesses, he might easily be forced to accelerate spending at the same time that his margins erode.

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Liberal Democrat spokesman David Laws said the rights had been drawn up "on the back of a fag packet" and shadow schools minister Nick Gibb said the process was a "complete waste of time".

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Winsor says officers should get a flat 10% hourly bonus for work between 8pm and 6am - but at the same time they should lose some of the rights they have to various overtime boosts to the pay packet.

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