•Valuable light-weight tool for end-to-end
performance
•Good for trouble-shooting, planning, setting expectations
•World wide coverage
•Performance from U.S. is improving all over
•Performance to developed countries are orders of magnitude better than to developing countries
•Poorer regions 5-10 years behind
•Poorest regions Africa, Caucasus, Central & S.
Asia
•Some regions are:
–catching up (SE Europe, Russia),
–keeping up (Latin America, Mid East, China),
–falling further behind (e.g. India, Africa)