Preplanning activities: define your goals

List and prioritize your goals

When you are planning how to deploy a NetCache appliance, you need to understand what you want to achieve by adding a Web cache, news cache, streaming media cache, or accelerator to your network. The following table lists some of the reasons that organizations use a NetCache appliance. You can use the table to record your goals, if they are different, and prioritize them.

Goal	Priority
Reduce bandwidth usage.
Improve the speed at which Web requests, news requests, and streaming media requests are resolved.
Log requests.
Block access to particular Web sites.