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CACHE TURBOCHARGING
DATA SHEET (Europe)

Dish/Roof Requirements

Dish type 0.9 meter non-penetrating roof mount receive terminal for most areas.
Dish size 0.9 meter standard mount in most areas. Remote or humid locations may require larger dishes.
Dish footprint 133.35 cm x 133.35 cm for 0.9 meter mount.
Footprint Map
Dish & mount weight 31.78 kg for mount & antenna system, plus 12-30 concrete blocks weighing approximately 15 kg per block.
Roof loading Distributed load of 118.6 kg/m² to 270.5 kg/m².
Rack Requirements Both satellite receiver and cache adapter are mountable in 19-inch cabinet or rack. Shelves are required for both units.
Receiver Cache Adapter
Physical dimensions
Rack space
6.99 cm tall x 31.12 cm x 23.50 cm 8.26 cm tall x 41.28 cm x 41.28 cm
Weight 2.27 kg 9.08 kg
Operational environment:
Temperature 0°/40°C 0°/40°C
Non-operational:
Temperature 0°/40°C 0°/40°C
Power Requirements 120/240 VAC 110-240 VAC; 50 Hz, .4 kVa
DC power for receiver and Cache Adapter an option.
Environmental Requirements UPS conditioned power preferred for both Receiver and Cache Adapter.
Network Requirements
Pre-installation One IP address
Reverse DNS mapping
Default gateway
Net mask
DNS
Physical 10Base T Ethernet into network hub.
Bandwidth Dedicated connection to the Internet of 56K or better.
Cache/Cache Peering Must recognize SkyCache Cache Adapter as an ICP sibling.
A cache/cache cluster with a minimum of 12-16GB of disk is recommended.
Usenet News NNTP compatible server.
Data throughput Maximum: 4 Mbps/second
Installation
Legal/Regulatory Roof rights/roof access for dish install by
Estimated time Approximately 5-10 minutes once units are rack mounted.
Backup necessary? No.
System Maintenance Treat as other server equipment.
Management
Monitoring Cache Adapter monitored on a 24 x 7 basis by the SkyCache NOC.
Reports Hit rate, miss rate, object size, bandwidth savings.
Interoperability
Cache Turbocharging ICP-Compatible with- Cisco CacheEngine version 1.7 Cobalt Systems CacheQube Entera TeraNode series. Inktomi Traffic Server 2.0 NLANR Squid 1.1, 1.2 Network Appliance NetCache 3.1, C230, C630 Rave Systems RM-AXi, RM-AXmp Novell Cache Engine
News feed NNTP news feed.
Support Availability
24 x 7 service
Service level agreement
Internal escalation for problem resolution
Yes
Yes
Yes
Space Segment Satellite:
Band:
GE-1E, operated by GE Americom.
Ku-band
Footprint Europe West of the Ural Mountains.
Footprint Map

North American Data Sheet

For more information on SkyCache in Europe, please contact:
Peter Cohen
Phone +1 301.598.0500, Ext. 2227
312 Laurel Avenue
Laurel, MD 20707 (USA)


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