IT Technology: SwiftCache

SwiftCache is a proven high performance media-caching appliance designed specifically to handle the challenges of the modern Internet. The intelligent caching engine is optimised for video caching (including live-streaming), as well as more traditional content such as websites or images.

For you as a network service provider, this means you can provide a better service to your subscribers, while realising big savings.

Features:

• Appliance models with specifications to suit the size of your network and the complexity of your caching needs
• Optimised for video delivery and the modern Internet
• Easy management via a web-based GUI, or with scriptable CLI or SNMP
• Highly flexible policy configurations to handle dynamic URLs, video-seek requests, and other such content that has traditionally been very difficult to cache effectively
• Cloud-based service for rule updates to ensure optimal cache performance
• No disruption to non-HTTP content
• Overload or bypass mode to ensure that, should the cache become overloading, it will not disrupt user experience
• Comprehensive reporting, including cache hit-rates and traffic levels on a per-site basis for most popular sites
• Clustering and inter-cache communication, for greater scalability and resilience, with the ability to manage and configure the cluster as a single machine
• Content Filtering, including using white and black-lists or selection by category e.g. social media

Compelling Benefits:

• By deploying SwiftCache within your network, you can: -
• Reduce the amount of international transic bandwidth consumed and the volume of traffic in the regional backhaul by between 30% and 80% (depending on the type of traffic cached and how well the platform can be optimised) - this means OPEX cost savings for you.
• Reduce the need to invest in infrastructure to cope with the rise in traffic, which translates into CAPEX savings
• Improve the response times for your customers (end-users), enhancing their experience and their satisfaction
• Gain a better understanding of what is happening on your network, and what your customers are doing
• Create new revenue streams by offering a content filtering service to your customers or by using your cache to become a delivery partner for the SwiftServe CDN service

These significant benefits ensure you of a faster, safer and better ROI, making the investment in SwiftCache a very low risk option with a significant upside.

Reference:

1. SwiftCache

http://www.swiftserve.com/swiftcache.html