The work also proposes some fixes that improve performance. The proposed solutions are complimentary to our work and can be applied in our cluster environment.
Much current research addresses the scalability problems posed by the Web.
The product does not appear to use any dynamic distribution policies based on content and no attempt is made to achieve cache aggregation via content-based request distribution. The design is roughly comparable in functionality to our TCP single handoff protocol, but has not been implemented. Fox et al. The work focuses on the reliability and scalability aspects of the system and is complementary to our work. The request distribution policy used in their systems is based on weighted round-robin.