Why does the Internet cause performance problems ?
The Internet is best described as a “network of networks” that all use a common language (Internet Protocol) to interoperate. The Internet is thus an overarching term used to describe the collection of its underlying networks which vary in size from home and small office networks to academic networks run by universities to the major “Tier 1” backbones operated by such companies as Verizon and Sprint. The countless interconnections within and between the underlying networks create numerous opportunities for problems to arise and performance to suffer.
