Caching for education

Schools around the world depend on the internet to compliment classroom teaching.  However, demands for access to ‘rich media’ content such as online libraries and encyclopedias can overwhelm your available internet bandwidth.

Rather than purchasing more bandwidth, which can be expensive or in limited supply, you need to look at solutions that help you better manage available bandwidth.  The CACHEBOX web caching appliance does just that.

With many students accessing the same web resource, content cached from the Internet gives you a number of immediate benefits:

• Reduces internet bandwidth usage by serving content stored on the LAN
• Faster performance on cached content
• Lessens user-perceived delays and increases user-satisfaction for the service you provide
• Reduces the need for additional bandwidth spend
• Supports protection policies by logging student requests

Furthermore, CACHEBOX allows you to pre-load the appliance with particular web sites or commercial content before lessons begin.  When teachers and pupils want to use this content they access it from the LAN and avoid experiencing download delays.

For larger or more complex installations at local education authority level it is possible to connect a series of CACHEBOXes together to improve the efficiency of the service and giving you multiple layers of caching.

 

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