29 Jun
1998
29 Jun
'98
8:58 a.m.
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