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architecture Online Quiz - 38
An internet trading system with 64 Kbps lines to end users has been web enabled. The average web page size is 40 KB. Users are complaining about response times exceeding 2 seconds. What would you recommend as an immediate possibility to improve performance?
At 64 Kbps, a 40 KB page takes approximately 5 seconds to transfer (40KB × 8 = 320Kb ÷ 64Kbps = 5s), not counting protocol overhead. This is the fundamental bottleneck. DB tuning (A) and web server tuning (B) won't overcome the bandwidth limit. Asking users to work at night (C) is impractical. A web accelerator like Citrix or NetScaler (D) compresses content, caches static resources, and optimizes protocol overhead - directly addressing the bandwidth constraint.