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To: Mark Jenkins who wrote (28433)	2/19/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 41046

SkyCaching could be the answer to all this web traffic. This fact has been known for a few years. If we could take the pages that are hit the most, and put them on the EDGE, of the network at the ISP site, we could get them out of the core and everyone would be happier. The end users would retrieve them from the disk surface of a server at their local ISP, and they would arrive much more quickly making the end user much happier. ISP's would look like great performers while DRAMATICALLY reducing the traffic load DOWN through their leased-links to the backbone and avoiding the expense of adding additional connections. I mention this because of Doug Humphries who started DIGEX, is now looking for a niche in restructuring the Internet Architecture with a twist. SkyCache will move the web traffic via satellite to caching disks at local ISP's. Anyway, general interest reading @ internet-skyway.com and Doug's new place with updated info coming any day now @ skycache.com About a dozen terrifyingly interesting things happen as a result of this very simple marriage between satellites and web cache. First, and probably most important, the ISP becomes part of a much larger cache community - approximately the total user base of ALL ISPs subscribing to the service. Hit rates of 60 percent can't NOT happen if the ISP doesn't mind receiving a lot of web pages that may never be requested. And why would he, the disk real estate is nearly free, "its a leased box" and the page NEVER DID come to his equipment room over a crowded leased-line connection to the backbone. It showed up via satellite, for free. That's right. The cumulative user base of all participating ISPs now becomes the community and determines hit rate. Critical mass for sale. gggg If it works, SkyCache collocates every web server at every subscribing ISP in existence - right where the callers are. The web just moved to the EDGE of the network, and doesn't transit backbones anymore at all. It is a broadcast technology. The apparent speed of the Internet just went THERMO!!!! frigidTemp'