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Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
- From: Patrick McManus
- Date: Mon Jun 29 15:07:27 1998
In a previous episode Michael Dillon said...
:: [...] Caching is a temporary hack that provides some limited
:: benefit at the moment but the need for it is fading except in areas that
:: are a couple of years behind in bandwidth deployment.
I can't believe you said that.
Heirarchical caching reduces latency and increases availability _in
addition to_ conserving bandwidth. Those (particularly the second)
will remain critically important features no matter if you're traversing
a 512k line or OC48...
-P
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