 multiple clients.
    </p>

    <a name="client_scalability"></a>
    <h4>Optimizing Client Scalability</h4>

    <p>
      In order to optimize TAO for scalability on the client side,
      connection multiplexing must be enabled.  Specifically, multiple
      requests may be issued and pending over the same connection.
      Sharing a connection in this manner reduces the amount of
      resources required by the ORB, which in turn makes more
      resources available to the application.  To enable this 