Chapter 6

Deploying NetCache as an Accelerator

About this chapter  

A NetCache appliance can be used to accelerate a Web site or streaming media site. This chapter defines a NetCache accelerator and presents several scenarios in which NetCache accelerators are used.

Chapter contents  

This chapter contains the following sections:

• What is a NetCache accelerator?
• Strategies for client access to an accelerator
• Scenario: an accelerator outside the firewall
• Scenario: NetCache as a distributed Web site accelerator
• Scenario: multiple accelerators accelerating a single server
• Scenario: single accelerator accelerating multiple servers
• Scenario: allowing limited access from another company
• Scenario: accelerator for an historical stock performance Web site

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