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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Peering with a big web farm (was Re: BBN Peering Issues)
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 [email protected] 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Spammers will be winnuked or > Network Administrator | drawn and quartered...whichever > Florida Digital Turnpike | is more convenient. > ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____ > >
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