Cache Server Hardware

ALSO CALLED: Web Cache Servers, Cache Engines, Caching Servers, Network Caching Servers, and Cache Servers
DEFINITION: A cache server is a dedicated network server or service acting as a server that saves Web pages or other Internet content locally. By placing previously requested information in temporary storage, or cache, a cache server both speeds up access to data and reduces demand on an enterprise's bandwidth. Cache servers also allow users to access content offline, including rich media files or other documents.  … 
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CACHE SERVER HARDWARE DEFINITION (continued): …  A cache server is sometimes called a "cache engine."A cache server is almost always also a proxy server, which is a server that "represents" users by intercepting their Internet requests and managing them for users. Typically, this is because enterprise resources are being protected by a firewall server. That server allows outgoing requests to go out but screens all incoming traffic. A proxy server helps match incoming messages with outgoing requests. In doing so, it is in a position to also cache the files that are received for later recall by any user. To the user, the proxy and cache servers … 
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