Chapter 54. Network Caching Technologies
Objectives
Describe current network traffic overload issues.
Describe how caching solves many of those issues.
Describe how network caching works.
Describe different caching technologies in use today.
Introduction
Although the volume of Web traffic on the Internet is staggering, a large percentage of that traffic is redundant–multiple users at any given site request much of the same content. This means that a significant percentage of the WAN infrastructure carries the identical content (and identical requests for it) day after day. Eliminating a significant amount of recurring telecommunications charges offers an enormous savings opportunity for enterprise and service provider customers.
Web caching performs ...
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