Hmm, In that case, doesn't it become an advantage for the webfarm who is now buying transit to put up the cache ? -dave
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 alex@nac.net wrote:
If one can force all outgoing to-the-webhosted-site queries through a single web cache, and the content is (or is made to be) relatively undynamic, one has a huge caching potential.
Amen; I didn't even see that. But, that could work to BBN's favor!
If BBN wants to sell connectivity to a big web farm provider, how does BBN's forcing all hits through a cache help BBN? The data all still crosses BBN's backbone, and the the web farm provider won't need as big a pipe. Maybe I'm missing something, but if BBN starts charging former peers, I'd think caching at these edges would be a bad thing for BBN.
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