12-10-2010, 05:56 PM
Web Caching: - A Pragmatic Approach to Generate Accelerated Data Delivery from Web servers.
Abstract
The main problem that is common to most organizations - ISPs, Educational Institutions,
Corporate and anyone, is nothing but Bandwidth Management. Successful bandwidth management is more important now, than ever, because accessibility of information is taken for granted. As more and more people start using internet, as more and more data are shared via internet, as more and more enterprises conduct business via online, the world of www has grown out of mathematical numbers, literally. Communications networks are growing more congested as consumers increase wireless usage and as companies generate and transport more data. As this bandwidth grows increasingly congested, service providers are constantly seeking relief. Carriers need innovative ways to break the logjams. Bandwidth has become a rare commodity these days with more and more vendors fighting to gain supremacy over each other – to provide internet service to their customer/clients. With limited bandwidth and more traffic (number of requests sent by an end-user at any given point of time), the experience of browsing the web is fast deteriorating.
Optimized Bandwidth + Optimized Traffic Management = Accelerated Data Delivery
In this paper we are going to present Web Caching Technology as a cost effective approach for organizations to address most types of bandwidth and traffic management challenges. This is not an entirely new invention in that Caching is an integral part of computer architecture, for example CPU cache speeds up an access to main memory, file system cache stores commonly requested blocks for faster access and so on.