Review and buyer's guide: Caching hardware

Review: Recipe for a cache bake-off
Because the average user can only stand to wait a maximum of eight seconds for a Web page to load onto his desktop, performance becomes everything. And Web caching has emerged as one of the best techniques for improving Web response times and for reducing bandwidth requirements for corporate WANs and ISP networks.

Cache panache
Effectively placed caching hardware can help you deliver fresh Web pages to end users, improve the efficiency of your Web site, cut WAN access costs and even shore up security against outside hacker attacks.

Interactive buyer's guide
Find the caching device that's right for you or compare two or more devices in a variety of categories, with our detailed database of product specs.

Tables
Performance numbers from our testing.

The bake-off workload
Details about our model.

Law firm defends move from software to hardware caching
Better performance drives Perkins Coie from software proxy servers to CacheFlow's Internet Caching Appliances.