Peering with a big web farm (was Re: BBN Peering Issues)

Thu Aug 13 16:13:28 UTC 1998

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 alex at nac.net 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.
> 
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