Caching for ISPs

Introduction
There is a prevailing belief amongst many ISPs that with the cost of bandwidth falling, adding more capacity is the most effective approach to increasing performance.  However, as traffic increases to use up available bandwidth sooner or later you’re forced to increase subscriptions all over again.  In remote parts of the world where infrastructure is limited or provision is via expensive satellite links the problems are compounded even further.

CACHEBOX helps you avoid spending large amounts of money on upgrading core equipment and transit links to cope with ever-demanding content growth.  It is a powerful yet affordable solution designed to help you control bandwidth costs and improve your customer satisfaction.

The cost savings derived from more effective bandwidth use also mean you have access to new business opportunities:

• Increase market penetration and share by lowering prices. A small decrease in price to end users can result in big increases in your customer base
• Increasing the number of customers on your network has limited impact on the quality of service to existing customers
• Increase the margins on packages as the costs of the underlying services decrease.
• Create new services running on existing infrastructure

ApplianSys’s experience with ISP customers in Africa and the Middle East has shown that by introducing higher performance CACHEBOXes into the core and supplying affordable web caches to customers, your network capacity can increase by over 50% and Internet performance for web browsing can go up by over 150%.  The improved utilisation of bandwidth and better internet experience means your service is more attractive and leads to higher sales.  In addition you have access to a new revenue stream in the form of the CACHEBOX sales to your customer base.

 

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