SUCCESS STORY Challenge A global retail distribution company in Seattle, WA regularly exchanges files of different types and sizes, ranging from SLAs to product design documents, with a company in Hong Kong. They exchange the files over the internet using TCP/IP . However, when using TCP/IP, the larger sized files are split into “chunks” or packets. These packets go through the company’s network in Seattle, through their local internet provider’s network, over the regional gateways and networks, transmitted to satellites, and sometimes even transmitted across telephone lines. Eventually, the packets that make up the file make it to the local network of the company on the other side of the world. Then another packet of information is returned to the originating server to acknowle

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