[18188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick McManus)
Mon Jun 29 15:08:36 1998
From: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@AppliedTheory.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: mcmanus@AppliedTheory.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980626211341.18245K-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Jun 26, 98 09:28:19 pm
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
