CONCLUSIONS

Advice

• Cooperate in building web cache meshes
• Lower costs: time, load, money
• Meshes are dependent on network topology
  An ISP-wide hierarchical mesh may have:
  • One single top-level server
  • A neighborhood of several servers that together make a top level
  • Separate specialized Web caching servers
  • One caching server at each end of the overloaded link
• Located cache servers where several networks join together

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