Introduction
As VSPREF methods are applied to systems in Edge Cloud or Edge Compute use cases, we will begin to see overlap with methods that have been employed for Internet Access Speed and Performance testing. MANY methods have been used for Internet performance measurement, and there are some general approaches which were successful when access speeds were <50Mbps. But no widely accepted Standard for metrics and methods has emerged, and now the challenge for Internet methods is to make measurements when access speeds top >900Mbps, and Latency is also a critical benchmark for Edge technologies (5G and its Applications). VSPERF methods routinely work at very high speed and low latency. It is worthwhile to compare VSPERF methods and those that use TCP or stateful traffic with multiple simultaneous connections (to account for TCP flow control).