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NetCache™ 5.4
Deployment Guide

Preface
 
Chapter 1: Getting Started with NetCache Deployment
Overview of NetCache
Caching service described
Modes in which you can run a NetCache appliance
Additional NetCache features
Preplanning activities: define your goals
Preplanning activities: describe your environment
Questions to ask yourself about deployment
 
Chapter 2: Strategies for Client Access to NetCache
Section A: Summary of available strategies
Section B: Client access through transparent proxying
Overview of transparent proxying
About transparent proxying with an L4 or L7 switch
Request distribution with an L4 or L7 switch
About transparent proxying with a WCCP router
Request distribution with a WCCP router
Transparent proxy deployment examples
Section C: Direct (nontransparent) client access methods
Summary of nontransparent client access methods
Pointing Web browsers to an automatic proxy configuration file
Pointing Web browsers to a single NetCache appliance
Methods for nontransparent access to a streaming media cache
Section D: Request distribution for nontransparent client access methods
Using DNS round robin for request distribution
Using a Server Load Balancer for request distribution
Section E: Client access through global request routing
 
Chapter 3: Multiple Cache Deployments
Section A: Request resolution hierarchies
What is a hierarchy?
Hierarchy deployment examples
Section B: Failover by using NetCache appliance takeover pairs
 
Chapter 4: Deploying NetCache as a Web Cache
About NetCache as a Web cache
Deployment considerations
Optimizing a Web site for caching
Scenario: NetCache deployed in an enterprise environment
Scenario: NetCache deployed at a global carrier and an ISP
Scenario: NetCache deployed with high-latency, high-bandwidth links
 
Chapter 5: Deploying NetCache as a Streaming Media Cache
Section A: Streaming media basics
Overview of streaming media
Streaming media and bandwidth
Transmission methods for streaming media delivery
Section B: Streaming media service with NetCache
Overview of NetCache as a streaming media cache
Overview of NetCache support for live streams
NetCache support for live streams over unicast
NetCache support for live streams over multicast
NetCache support for on-demand streams
Section C: Deployment considerations
Considerations for bandwidth
Considerations for deploying NetCache multicast support
Planning the number of streaming media caches needed
Planning for client access to streaming media caches
Planning for failover for streaming media service
Considerations for firewalls and streaming media service
Prefilling streaming media caches
Section D: Deployment scenarios
Scenario: ISP adding streaming media caches
Scenario: Distributed streaming media caches
Scenario: Deployment with a Windows Media server
Scenario: Prefilling content of corporate NetCache appliances
Scenario: Deploying multicast in an enterprise
Scenario: Multicast support for transmission over a satellite link
Scenario: Multicast support for a CDN
 
Chapter 6: Deploying NetCache as an Accelerator
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
 
Chapter 7: Deploying NetCache as a News Cache
Introduction to NetCache news caching
Interaction between the news cache and news server
Software, clients, and features that NetCache supports
About news data that is cached
Deployment considerations
Scenario: news caches at an ISP Data Center and POPs
 
Chapter 8: Content Adaptation Services
Section A: NetCache support for ICAP
Learning about ICAP
When ICAP services are invoked
Section B: ICAP deployment considerations
Deployment overview
Feature summary
Planning for ICAP services and ICAP servers
Security and ICAP
Section C: ICAP service scenarios
Scenario: virus checking in an enterprise
Scenario: Content filtering and language translation
 
Chapter 9: NetCache Deployment with Firewalls
Deploying NetCache parallel to a firewall
Deploying NetCache inside a firewall
Deploying NetCache inside multiple firewalls
Relationship between the firewall and NetCache authentication
Scenario: access to a company Web server outside a firewall
 
Chapter 10: NetCache Routing Deployment Examples
Distributing outgoing traffic over multiple links
Distributing incoming traffic over multiple links
 
Chapter 11: Global Request Manager
About Global Request Manager
Request redirection with GRM
Scenario: telco movie delivery to home subscribers
Scenario: enterprise CDN spanning continents
Additional GRM features
 
Appendix A: Automatic Proxy Configuration File
Introduction to automatic proxy configuration
Examples of automatic proxy configuration files
 
Appendix B: Requirements for Transparent Proxying
 
Appendix C: OSI Model Relationship with Switches
 
Appendix D: Considerations When Pushing Content
Reasons for pushing content to NetCache appliances
Content distribution and management: about ContentDirector
Deployment considerations
 
Glossary
 
Index
 
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