Deals Boost PKI, Firewall Security EverGreen Helps Master Disaster Apptus Gets Direction From NetStructure Mercury Upgrades Monitoring For additional Net Infrastructure stories Web sites are becoming more complex, with each page containing very different elements, including static content, such as corporate logos, and other rapidly changing data, such as navigation bars to stock quotes. This combination makes caching difficult. Traditional caching stores static information at the edge of a network, ready for fast initial page downloads to nearby users.
Problems arise if other elements of that Web page change frequently.
Data used in this way is often stored much farther away from the end user. Akamai Technologies is taking a shot at solving this problem with its EdgeSuite service, which offers frequent updates of both HTML and dynamic content. Akamai's EdgeSuite, which will ship in December, lets site owners dynamically construct pages and store them at the edge of the network. This means that even the oft-updated data is localized. In addition to decreasing download time, EdgeSuite allows the pages to be targeted more directly to the end viewer.