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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (13666)	8/6/1999 4:36:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (2) of 29970

Which of these are aided through the use of caching, the edge or the core? How much of "the Internet's" total flows do you feel are currently attributable to consumer download types of traffic, as opposed to VPNs, extranets, and other commercial enterprise uses? You are asking questions that you must already know better the answer than any of the rest of us, but I'll throw in my uninformed opinion... 1) Caching serves primarily to aid limitations in the core. I guess what it does to the "edge" depends on what you define as "edge". I cant see it doing anything at all to help the "last mile" to the home. If the "core" is going to be have a bandwidth glut as some say then caching really is pretty pointless. My gut feel is that caching will be a vital feature in making a better user experience. 2) I bet that there will be peak load times that are primarily consumer downloads. Consumers have this nasty habit of doing the exact same thing at the exact same time, such as downloading IE6.0 the day it comes out. Caching will reduce the aggrivation factor significantly even if it does not change the "average" load on "the net" very much. Eric

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