Deployment overview

Planning for deploying ICAP services involves the tasks listed in the following table.

Task	See...
Determine the ICAP services that you want to provide.	Planning for ICAP services and ICAP servers Considering network traffic when determining ICAP services
Determine how many ICAP servers you need for the services that you have selected and where to locate them.	Planning for ICAP services and ICAP servers Network link recommendation Location of the NetCache appliances and ICAP servers
Ensure that you have a strategy for failover of ICAP service if an ICAP server becomes unavailable.	Failover if an ICAP server goes down
Ensure that security to support ICAP transactions is adequate.	Security and ICAP

See the ICAP Services Guide for information about NetCache support for ICAP services.