Planning for network deployment

Decisions to be made

While you read the Deployment Guide, you made decisions about deploying your NetCache appliance as a streaming media cache on your network. Some of the deployment decisions you made require configuration using the Appliance Manager or the NetCache CLI.

The following table lists deployment decisions that require configuration, and it provides the location of information to help you plan how to configure the features that you want to implement.

If you want to...	See...
Deploy the appliance outside the firewall or with no firewall	Deployment Guide Hierarchies chapter in the Administration Guide
Deploy the appliance inside a transparent or nontransparent firewall	Hierarchies chapter in the Administration Guide Basic firewall requirements for streaming media
Deploy NetCache with one or more caches upstream	Hierarchies chapter in the Administration Guide
Use IP takeover pairs to enable one NetCache appliance to take over services for another if one fails	Takeover chapter in the Administration Guide
Deploy NetCache as a transparent cache with an L4 or L7 switch or WCCP 2.0-based router	Transparency chapter in the Administration Guide
Deploy NetCache as a nontransparent cache	Deployment Guide Implementing nontransparent redirection for MMS streaming
Implement a load balancing strategy	Tuning a streaming media cache for performance Transparency chapter in the Administration Guide