Principle Studies:
    • Cache Review Series

ISPs Can Now Host Dialup Acceleration Alex Goldman
[April 4, 2003] Flush from its recent EarthLink customer win, Propel announces that it has modified its ASP-style dialup acceleration service so that large ISPs can host their own instead of using Propel's infrastructure.

More Bandwidth in the Same Pipe Wayne Kawamoto
[June 21, 2001] Managed caching solution from Loudcloud is designed to enable providers to increase website performance while controlling infrastructure costs. The service is based on CacheFlow's cIQ Server Accelerator 700 series.

Keeping the Site Up When It's Down Wayne Kawamoto
[May 7, 2001] Designed to accelerate content and ease Internet gridlock, the NetScaler 3000 series can deliver a website proactively and inform users of current Internet response times.

Edge Application Server Wayne Kawamoto
[April 24, 2001] Zack Systems' comprehensive ISP application suite lets ISPs market additional services such as anonymous browsing, intelligent advertising, dynamic content compression, and server-side bookmarks.

InfoLibria's Cache Engine Rescues ISPs ISP-Planet Staff
[March 20, 2001] In selling the cache engine for its content delivery network, InfoLibria argues that if ISPs fail to embrace streaming media, carrier-agnostic service providers will provide services in which the ISP's only role is plumbing.

NetCache and NetApp Hardware Platforms Wayne Kawamoto
[February 23, 2001] Network Appliance unveils entry-level and midrange storage hardware platforms, and a midrange content delivery solution.

A Smarter Content Delivery Network Wayne Kawamoto
[February 15, 2001] CacheFlow says that its cIQ Content Delivery Architecture uses software algorithms to make intelligent decisions about content distribution, adapting on the fly to usage patterns.

ProStor Family of NAS Appliances Wayne Kawamoto
[February 7, 2001] Network Storage Solutions asserts that its new appliances offer the processing speed and sizable caching of a high-end system—at a fraction of the cost.

ISPCON CDN FaceOff: Content Bridge, Content Alliance, and Akamai Networks Lisa Phifer [January 4, 2001] Two multi-vendor cooperatives, Content Bridge and Content Alliance, were launched to enable more effective competition with CDN market-leader Akamai. How will they do it? ISPCON keynoters offer insight.

2000

Server Acceleration: Valadeo Technologies Part 2 Jeff Goldman
[December 19, 2000] How much time do your technicians spend on the phone supporting new Web hosting clients? Would your ISP profit from speeding-up the process for your business and your customers?

Server Acceleration: Threshold Networks Part 1 Jeff Goldman
[December 12, 2000] If your web servers sit at the edge of the Internet, does that make your ISP a fringe player? Threshold Networks could turn your view from the edge into profit.

Enhanced Content Delivery Network Wayne Kawamoto
[November 28, 2000] New router family from SkyStream Networks may enable ISPs to increase the quality of rich media delivered to subscribers by taking advantage of traditional broadcast technologies.

New Appliances for Streamlining Data at ISP Centers   Wayne Kawamoto
[November 15, 2000 ] CacheFlow's content-smart networking solutions may provide an infrastructure layer that intelligently accelerates, delivers, and manages content.

Enhanced Content Delivery   Wayne Kawamoto
[November 8, 2000 ] Mirror Image Internet's content access solution helps ISPs' caches to work together to improve performance for all.

Next-Generation Content Delivery   Wayne Kawamoto
[September 12, 2000] Currently under development, Virtual Onboard Switching systems for satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit might solve some Internet bottlenecks.

Stream Caching with TeraEDGE   Lisa Phifer
[September 11, 2000] New "content distribution server" tames the biggest bit-hog on the Internet, proxying, storing, and managing live media streams at the network edge. Initial deployment will broadcast summer Olympics.

Large Capacity, Small Drive   Wayne Kawamoto
[September 11, 2000] Quantum claims its RAID storage device installs in five minutes without network disruption. The 1U rack-mount is available in 120GB and 240 GB versions.

Small   Wayne Kawamoto
[July 17, 2000] Low profile caching appliance from Solid Data Systems promises to multiply performance and scalability. It's so very very small. Small is good. Good is small. It's a small good.

New Caching Software Wayne Kawamoto
[May 24, 2000 ] Entera's TeraEDGE caching software promises to improve viewing and reduce bandwidth costs.

Caching Appliance is Cheap and Simple Wayne Kawamoto
[May 15, 2000 ] The NetCache C1100 is an ultra-thin caching appliance that is cheap, small, and easy to deploy. It should make POPs cheaper to deploy and easier to maintain.

Streaming Media Cache Appliance   Wayne Kawamoto
[February 4, 2000]   The high-performance architecture of Network Appliance's new NetCache 4.1 provides an efficient platform for major streaming formats.

Single-Chip Video Broadcast CODEC   Wayne Kawamoto
[January 28, 2000]   C-Cube Microsystems has recently released a new scalable MPEG CODEC-on-a-chip, that offers broadcast quality audio-video streaming with pipes as small as 56K.

Caching: Where to Start?   Best of the ISP Lists
[January 14, 2000]   Is a cache appliance the way to go for a small installation, or are the cost advantages of 'free' cache solutions compelling? Members of ISP-Caching debate the issues.

Caching Appliance Style: Quantex WebXL 2000  
[January 10, 2000]   Here's a stable, economical, easy-to-set-up system running Novell Internet Cache System software.

Fail-Safe Caching: InfoLibria DynaCache  
[January 17, 2000]   This is a solid web cache for high-availability networks—with a price that reflects the target market.

NICS with Integrated Management: Compaq TaskSmart  
[January 24, 2000] Compaq has created an appliance-style cache system that addresses the management needs of both novice and experienced cache admins.

Predictive Caching: CacheFlow 545  
[February 3, 2000] The first unit to survive our tests without a reboot, the CacheFlow 545 offers many innovative features, including an intriguing hybrid config interface and a proactive 'adaptive refresh' algorithm.

Multiprotocol Caching: NetApp NetCache C720s  
[February 14, 2000] The NetCache C720s provides a full-featured, versatile platform for ISPs who want to cache streaming multimedia and/or news, as well as Web traffic.

Do-It-Yourself Caching: Squid 2.3  
[February 28, 2000] This open source solution is a great low-cost way to get into caching. It's far from 'cost-free.' though, since a stable Squid installation calls for some fairly hefty hardware.

Series Wrap-Up  
[March 6, 2000] We finish up our cache review series with a head-to-head comparison of the six reviewed products across all of our evaluation criteria.