The coursework for this module i’ve just finished studying was to write a journal article on a topic of choice within the modules limits.
Collaborative Distributed Web Caching for Bandwidth Heavy Content Types
Abstract
Distributed Web Caching has the potential to solve multiple problems, whilst save ISPs, Download Hosts and Users a great deal of money. If you take the example of Streaming Media as a popular content type you can see how a distributed cache network at the ISP level would be of great use. This project seems to hold the most potential, and so is the key focus of this document, specifically around the growth of the percentage of streaming media traffic relative to total internet traffic levels.
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