[CAnet - news] XML and web services account for 5% of web traffic

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[Excerpts for Networking article - BSA]

http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3514181


Cisco Systems ...enters the networking giant in the application-oriented
networking (AON) sector, an emerging field designed to make it easier for
computing gear to process chunky application messages or files.

Networks typically get bogged down trying to pass too much data through too
little bandwidth. Application messages can be several megabytes, causing the
data to get backed up as it traverses the network.

AON is a response to an era in which 50 applications have morphed into 500
applications and five application services have turned into 2,500
application services, said Stephen Cho, senior director for product
management in Cisco's AON business unit.

AON is expected to ensure that XML-based Web services (define) messages,
which could include purchase orders and other transactions, get to where
they are supposed to go with speed and security.

But Cisco isn't focusing on XML-base messaging as the main culprit. Cho said
XML and Web services messages currently only suck up about 5 percent of all
Web traffic.

That is bound to change in the future, as businesses increasingly turn to
Web services and services-oriented architectures to anchor their computing
protocols and business process strategies.


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