High Performance Networking VII: IFIP TC6 Seventh International Conference on High Performance Networks (HPN ' 97), 28th April - 2nd May 1997, White Plains, New York, USA

It is always confusing, and perhaps inconvenient at times, using generic terms that will mean something to everyone but different things to different people. "High Performance" is one of those terms. High Performance can be viewed as synonymous to High Speed or Low Latency or a number of other characteristics. The interesting thing is that such ambiguity can sometimes be useful in a world where focus shifts quite easily from one issue to another as times and needs evolve. Many things have c...