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The Promise of Streaming Video: An Unfunded Mandate
By Art Reisman, CTO, www.netequalizer.com Art Reisman is a partner and co-founder of APconnections, a company that provides bandwidth control solutions (NetEqualizer) to ISPs, Universities, Libraries,...
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Enhance Your Internet Service With YouTube Caching
Have you ever wondered why certain videos on YouTube seem to run more smoothly than others? Over the years, I’ve consistently noticed that some videos on my home connection will run without...
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NetEqualizer YouTube Caching a Win for Net Neutrality
Over the past few years, much of the controversy over net neutrality has ultimately stemmed from the longstanding rift between carriers and content providers. Commercial content providers such as...
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NetEqualizer YouTube Caching FAQ
Editor’s Note: This week, we announced the availability of the NetEqualizer YouTube caching feature we first introduced in October. Over the past month, interest and inquiries have been high, so we’ve...
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NetEqualizer Testing and Integration of Squid Caching Server
Editor’s Note: Due to the many variables involved with tuning and supporting Squid Caching Integration, this feature will require an additional upfront support charge. It will also require at minimum a...
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Setting Up a Squid Proxy Caching Co-Resident with a Bandwidth Controller
Editor’s Note: It was a long road to get here (building the NetEqualizer Caching Option (NCO) a new feature offered on the NE3000 & NE4000), and for those following in our footsteps or just curious...
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YouTube Caching Results: detailed analysis from live systems
Since the release of YouTube caching support on our NetEqualizer bandwidth controller, we have been able to review several live systems in the field. Below we will go over the basic hit rate of...
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YouTube Dominates Video Viewership in U.S.
Editor’s Note: Updated July 27th, 2011 with material from www.pewinternet.org: YouTube studies are continuing to confirm what I’m sure we all are seeing – that Americans are creating, sharing and...
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Our Take on Network Instruments 5th Annual Network Global Study
Editors Note: Network Instruments released their “Fifth Annual State of the Network Global study” on March 13th, 2o12. You can read their full study here. Their results were based on responses by 163...
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Ever Wonder Why Your Video (YouTube) Over the Internet is Slow Sometimes?
By: Art Reisman Art Reisman is the CTO of APconnections. He is Chief Architect on the NetGladiator and NetEqualizer product lines. I live in a nice suburban neighborhood with both DSL and Cable service...
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The World’s Biggest Caching Server
Caching solutions are used in all shapes and sizes to speed up Internet data retrieval. From your desktop keeping a local copy of the last web page viewed, to your cable company keeping an entire...
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A Novel Idea on How to Cache Data Completely Transparently
By Art Reisman Recently I got a call from a customer claiming our Squid proxy was not retrieving videos from cache when expected. This prompted me to set up a test in our lab where I watched four...
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Caching Success Urban Myth or Reality
Caching is a bit overrated as a means of eliminating congestion and speeding up Internet access. Yes there are some nice caching tricks that create fleeting illusions of speed, but in the end, caching...
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Caching in the Cloud is Here
By Art Reisman, CTO APconnections (www.netequalizer.com) I just got a note from a customer, a University, that their ISP is offering them 200 megabit internet at fixed price. The kicker is, they can...
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Squid Caching Can be Finicky
Editors Note: The past few weeks we have been working on tuning and testing our caching engine. We have been working closely with some of the developers who contribute to the Squid open source...
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Stuck on Desert Island, Do You Take Your Caching Server or Your Netequalizer ?
Caching is a great idea and works well, but I’ll take my NetEqualizer with me if forced to choose between the two on my remote island with a satellite link. Yes there are a few circumstances where a...
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