running summary on caching

Tue Jun 30 14:19:37 UTC 1998

It's worth noting that as pipes get bigger and faster, caching
assumes a greater, not lesser, importance.  Higher bandwidth
and constant latency means a greater bandwidth-delay product,
and a corresponding degradation in performance.  Caching is
just as much about local replication to reduce latency as it is
about "conserving bandwidth."

Peter Berger
Coordinator, NLANR Engineering Services
NCNE / National Center for Network Engineering
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center