On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Regan Murphy wrote:
In the past, caching has made some sense for accelerating content to clients.
I like it when I download a service pack from microsoft (for example) and the 100MB comes in at 20Mbps instead of the 512kbps that my international pipe is limited to. The fact that it may only technically be local traffic but I get charged for international traffic makes no difference because I would have no choice but to be paying international rates if there was no cache.
When security/antivirus vendors release patches and updates is there a large increase in international bandwidth use or do the caches assist there?
Caching must also be good for sites where there limited bandwith is at the server end too.
Much if not most of the things you mention aree part of Akamai and there are at least three Akamai clusters in NZ that I know of - which would mean all this is national traffic. -- Steve.