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RE: running summary on caching

  • From: Peter Berger
  • Date: Tue Jun 30 14:07:31 1998

It's worth noting that as pipes get bigger and faster, caching
assumes a greater, not lesser, importance.  Higher bandwidth
and constant latency means a greater bandwidth-delay product,
and a corresponding degradation in performance.  Caching is
just as much about local replication to reduce latency as it is
about "conserving bandwidth."

Peter Berger
Coordinator, NLANR Engineering Services
NCNE / National Center for Network Engineering
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center




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