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Cache server
A server used to speed corporate
access to Web content on the Internet by caching the Web pages that users most frequently
request.
Caching
Any mechanism for storing
frequently needed information in accessible memory so that it can be quickly retrieved.
Caching technologies are used in various ways by operating systems, applications, and
network devices to improve performance by providing temporary storage of information that
needs to be quickly accessed. Many Microsoft networking technologies support various kinds
of caching, for example
The file system cache for the
Microsoft Windows NT operating system, which speeds up file access from hard disk drives
Offline Files in Windows 2000,
which allows users to browse network file system content when disconnected from the
network
Domain Name System (DNS) cache
for caching recently resolved host names on a name server, which speeds up the resolution
of host names for the DNS on the Internet
Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) cache on a host connected to an IP internetwork, which is used for caching IP
addresses that have recently been resolved into MAC addresses, thus speeding up network
communications between hosts
Microsoft Proxy Server, which
allows Web content obtained from the Internet to be cached locally for faster access and
reduction of WAN link congestion
Caching of ODBC connections for
improved access to Microsoft SQL Server databases for Active Server Pages (ASP)
applications written for Internet Information Services (IIS)
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