This allows companies to optimize bandwidth and to accommodate new Internet-based services. Compared with a web cache from CacheFlow, the results are similar. But don't take our word for it. Data Communications magazine just published new performance tests of proxy caches from various vendors, and Novell's ICS earned the Tester's Choice award. This is typically achieved by increasing horsepower.
Less hardware equals less costs, both in terms of initial acquisition and management.
Plus it's compatible with all layer-4 switches and Cisco's WCCP 1 and 2. New, real-time services such as media streaming, content filtering, identity brokering, ad injection, and metering are important to the future of the web. ICS's affordable performance capacity and efficient use of hardware resources position it as the ideal platform for these services. Take content filtering, for example. But to make them pay off, you have to be able to execute flawlessly, and delivering content quickly to impatient web surfers is absolutely critical.