This service which will use a 2 level network of web-cache servers strategically placed in the national network topology. A successful national cache service will also require a high degree of availability in the top-level server. This projectplan is scheduled for revision late 1996, new version will be ready by December 1996 as a result of evaluation and input from users. Revision made February 1997. This project needs some publicity to attract the initial test group members.
Results needs to be disseminated.
This server will be placed as close as possible to the network connection out of the country. This should maximize the bandwidth savings on this line. The chaining of several servers is very static, and the lower level servers will not work if the top-lever server becomes unavailable. This will hopefully be better in the next release, but as of now the top level server must have a high degree of availability to be accepted by the users. The web-cache servers must be available at all times.