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Web Cache: BY Sudhir Dama 08GE1A1251

This document discusses web caching and its benefits. Web caching involves storing copies of web pages, images, and other content on intermediary caching servers. This reduces bandwidth usage, improves response times, and lessens server loads. There are two main types of caching - appliances that integrate caching software and hardware, and software-only caches that run on standard operating systems. Caches must ensure cached content remains fresh by checking for updates. Caches can be configured as proxy caches, transparent caches, or server accelerators to best suit different network needs. The overall goals of caching are to improve quality of service, reduce traffic during surges, and lower overall traffic volumes.

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Web Cache: BY Sudhir Dama 08GE1A1251

This document discusses web caching and its benefits. Web caching involves storing copies of web pages, images, and other content on intermediary caching servers. This reduces bandwidth usage, improves response times, and lessens server loads. There are two main types of caching - appliances that integrate caching software and hardware, and software-only caches that run on standard operating systems. Caches must ensure cached content remains fresh by checking for updates. Caches can be configured as proxy caches, transparent caches, or server accelerators to best suit different network needs. The overall goals of caching are to improve quality of service, reduce traffic during surges, and lower overall traffic volumes.

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WEB CACHE

BY

SUDHIR DAMA
08GE1A1251

WHY WEB CACHE?


Bandwidth Performance = Response Time Server Load

Failure Redundancy

WEB CACHING
1 HTTP request

2
1
Client1

HTTP response

2 1

Client2

2 1

2
Cache

Client3

Server

WHY CACHING IS IMPORTANT NOW


Web caching is a promising approach to the problem of rising Internet and Intranet traffic volume for three main reasons:

Quality of service Surge protection Overall traffic reduction

QUALITY OF SERVICE

Control speed of the path Reducing the potential for packet loss delays and speeding overall service Increases the transmission bandwidth to the browser for cached objects

Reducing long-distance transmission costs.

TRAFFIC SURGE PROTECTION

Help to reduce bandwidth demands during network traffic surges. Surges can swap any portion of a network, regardless of the network's bandwidth. Eliminates upstream traffic.

OVERALL TRAFFIC REDUCTION

Caches have a "hit" rate of 35%

Reduce upstream traffic on the network by that same percentage.

CACHING PRODUCTS LOOK LIKE


Web caching products come in two forms:

Appliances Software

CACHING APPLIANCES

Caching appliances from companies like NetApps and CacheFlow integrate caching software with a hardware platform and a proprietary operating system.

This appliances are flexible and platform independent

SOFTWARE

Caching software products run on standard operating system platforms such as UNIX and Windows NT. Caching software runs on the same operating system as other network management applications, the data generated by such a cache is easier to integrate with other network management functions.

ASSURING DATA FRESHNESS


A cache stores objects, and objects change over time. The cache must therefore determine the freshness of each object and replace outdated ones as they [Link] of freshness is: Get if modified Evaluate a stored object, and then retrieve a fresh copy Object was modified

HOW CACHES ARE CONFIGURED

A cache can be configured as a proxy for browser users, or it can be transparent to browser users Some additional engineering by the vendor, caches can also be configured as server accelerators, or "reverse proxy" caches

PROXY CACHES
A proxy cache operates by explicitly cooperating with the browser. The cache then either satisfies the request itself or passes on request to the server as a proxy for the browser. Proxy caches are particularly useful on enterprise Intranets

TRANSPARENT

CACHES

A transparent cache is so named because it works by intercepting the network traffic transparently to the browser. Transparent caches are especially useful to ISPs because they require no browser set-up modification Simplest way to use this cache internally on a network

SERVER ACCELERATORS OR REVERSE PROXY

A server accelerator is a proxy cache that stands in for one or more specific Web servers Server accelerator it reduces load on a particular server

CONCLUSION
I am in the opinion that it would be better if we can have a technology in such a way that a method should be originated to find exactly the web counts or "hits" of a particular web page/site, even though the clients access the cached servers.

THANK YOU

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