A written report from the Workshop will be distributed to the list by Ingrid and Lars-Owe. Terena task force is about 2 years old. Squid not fast enough and gives long latency at peek traffic. He has over one million transactions per day. NetCache was installed out of the box and ran without problems for over a month.
Response time is very good but unfortunately the purchase price is horrendously high.
It was suggested to use it as a frontend to a normal disk-based cache. In future releases of Squid this could possibly be achieved by a single cache utilizing storage classes. Unfortunately Lars and Bjarne was busy attending last minute conference duties during our meeting. Ingrid filled us in on their progress. They haven't done any real testing as they are still waiting for a Cisco Cache Engine that doesn't have a broken memory card.