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It starts with a single mouse click.... A few characters of web address generates thousands to hundreds of thousands of bits of data, including text, pictures, video, and sound. Multiply this by hundreds and thousands of users to end up with a red-hot Internet connection swamped with redundant copies of web pages. Stand-alone caching offers some relief, but SkyCache provides room to breathe.

Breathing Room

SkyCache Release 1.0 is an affordable monthly service providing cache turbocharging and a full Usenet News feed through high-speed satellite datacasting, constantly updating your open-standards cache with the most popularly accessed web traffic through a combination of Reactive Caching and prepopulation.

Built on scalable technology and open standards, SkyCache provides a superior solution to a stand-alone cache and offers a clean growth path for other datacasting services, such as streaming audio and video.

Maximize Current Bandwidth

With better cache hit rates reducing load on existing circuits, you can add more users and/or leased lines to your existing business before having to buy another T1 or T3. SkyCache has demonstrated improved hit rates anywhere from 10 to 30 points on top of normal hit rates. For example, if you get a 19% cache hit rate, SkyCache could lift that hit rate to a range of 30% to 60%. In addition, a full Usenet News feed delivered by the same datacasting technology provides additional bandwidth conservation.

Improve Customer Performance

Frequently accessed web pages are delivered directly to the cache via satellite broadcast before customers request them, enabling them to get content at LAN speeds rather than facing delays at an overtaxed web server, at a congested NAP, or at another bottleneck. SkyCache uses a combination of its' patent-pending Reactive Caching technology and prepopulation to deliver superior update performance in real time over static update schemes.

Cleaner Pipes = More Dollars per Megabyte

The combination of SkyCache Release 1.0 and an open-standards cache results in lots more breathing room, with the potential for anywhere from a 30-50% reduction in current bandwidth utilization. This allows you to add on more users to your current Internet connectivity. It means happier users since the most frequently accessed web pages are stored locally for faster access.

Reactive Caching: High Speed

A cache is only as good as the number of people that access it. As a general rule, the more people that are involved in using a cache, the higher the hit rate on the cache. SkyCache's Reactive Caching technology merges statistics from all of its customers to build a superior cache community and cache statistics greater than any individual customer cache could on its own.

Reactive Caching, by virtue of working in real time with data collected across the Internet, immediately responds to sudden bursts in web transaction activity and puts out "hot spot" caused by unexpected surges to web sites. One of Reactive Caching's first successes was catching the surge upon Apple's iMac announcement.

Satellite Broadcast: Low Drag

Having a large cache community is only a part of the solution. Each individual cache must be quickly updated. Satellite broadcast provides a one-way high-speed pipe to update every cache immediately and simultaneously without expensive Internet engineering. Keeping the traffic off the Net helps speed up the Net and your connection to the Net.

Cost-effective and Friendly

Release 1.0 is an affordable monthly service, designed to fit into the cash flow of ISPs. Cache solutions from Cisco Systems, Cobalt Networks, Entera, Inktomi, Network Appliance, Rave Systems, Novell and CacheFlow have been tested and certified as SkyCache Compatible, with many others to be tested in the future. In addition, NLANR Squid 1.1 and 1.2 have also been certified as SkyCache Compatible. Other solutions are frequently being sent to us for testing; call or e-mail for the latest information.

Growth for the Future

SkyCache's high-speed multi-megabit satellite datacasting technology provides a means of distribution for any sort of data, including software, databases, audio, and video. Bandwidth-intensive content such as streaming media and push channels are especially suited for transmission through future versions of SkyCache.