Mirror image internet: through the looking glass.

From: EContent | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Misek, Marla | Copyright information

Like the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who finds herself in a fantastical place where things are not always as they seem, Internet users generally have no idea what's going on behind the scenes of a Web site. As long as the site gives them what they need and does so quickly, they don't particularly care either, according to Bob Hammond, chief technology officer for Mirror Image Internet, a Woburn, Massachusetts-based provider of content delivery, stre...

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