8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
7:15 p.m.
Joe Abley wrote:
How widespread is transparent caching today?
In NZ, very.
Back during the trans-pacific bandwidth squeeze of 1998/9 it seemed like transparent caching was a necessary evil that would help accommodate growth in customer demand for traffic until Southern Cross arrived. Southern Cross arrived some time ago, is evidently not full, and yet people are still forcing customers to use caches.
Why is that?
Rhetorical question? International bandwidth still costs a lot, perhaps. Even so, isn't there a slight win for NZ Internet users going through a transparent cache, as in theory at least it should speed up "the Intarweb" as content is being fetched from a local cache instead of 150-350ms away? -- Juha