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Revision: 417
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Date:     Tue Jul 26 08:39:22 2011
Log:      Added Introduction part. Used table of contents generated by wiki.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=417

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 == Table of Contents ==

- # Introduction
-  # Relationship of Tests and Control Protocols
-  # Logical Model
- # Protocol Overview
- # NDTP-Control
- # NDTP-Tests
+<wiki:toc max_depth="3" />
+
+== Introduction ==
+
+Several studies have shown that the majority of network performance  
problems occur in or near the users’ desktop/laptop computer.  These  
problems include, but are not limited to, duplex mismatch conditions on  
Ethernet/FastEthernet links, incorrectly set TCP buffers in the user’s  
computer, or problems with the local network infrastructure. NDT seeks to  
determine why a network connection exhibits certain performance  
characteristics. In addition to measuring the familiar upload and download  
speeds of a user's connection, NDT also performs tests that can assess  
factors such as latency, packet loss, congestion, bad cables, and  
bottlenecks on the end-to-end path from client to server.
+
+NDT popularity has grown in recent years, which led to an increased  
interest from the developers community around the world. People started to  
integrate NDT with their systems using different approaches, like adding  
Web Developer's API to Web based (java applet) client and writing new  
mobile (Android based) client.
+
+NDTP is allowing outside parties to easily extend both NDT server and  
client parts and write compatible clients in new languages that will be  
able to communicate with the publicly available Measurement Lab servers.
+
+In this document, the key  
words "MUST", "REQUIRED", "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED", and "MAY" are to be  
interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
+
+=== Relationship of Tests and Control Protocols ===
+=== Logical Model ===
+== Protocol Overview ==
+== NDTP-Control ==
+== NDTP-Tests ==