Transparent Cache Switching

ServerIron switches can transparently redirect the Internet traffic to one or more caching servers for client or server acceleration. Known as Transparent Cache Switching or TCS, transparent caching allows network administrators to easily deploy caches anywhere in the network without the need to modify end-user browsers or other software.

Brocade ServerIron switches offer enterprises and service providers a highly resilient, server load balancing switch that provides both stackable and port dense chassis-based solutions. ServerIron's transparent cache switching feature improves Internet response time and reduces WAN operating costs by redirecting Web traffic destined to remote Internet hosts to a group of local cache servers.

ServerIron switches can redirect content requests for either forward or reverse cache installations, providing the industry's most powerful content aware cache switching features to build intelligent content networks that route traffic based on content rather than just IP addresses. TCS features include:

• Intelligent load balancing of caches to eliminate content duplication, increase cache-hit ratio, and improve the Internet response time
• Accelerate delivery of dynamic content and optimize the cache utilization by bypassing the caches automatically for dynamic content
• Specify content based rules to determine what content should be cached
• Organize caches into logical groups that serve different content to provide differentiated service offerings to content providers

Transparent Cache Switching is standard on all ServerIron switches.