Inktomi Makes The Edge "Personal" Michael Singer
[February 28, 2002] Although the terms of the deal are confidential, it is certain that United Online has gained access to Comcast's cable Internet network, and that the agreement is not exclusive.

Cisco's Mobile CDN Clint Boulton
[August 2, 2001] Cisco eyes the mobile workforce with its new Cisco CTE 1400 Series Content Transformation, a data center device that converts HTML and XML data for PDAs and WAP phones.

Satellite Content Delivery:
Streaming with iBEAM-Part 2 Lisa Phifer
[April 5, 2001] iBEAM's free dish deal has already lured several large ISPs into its access partner program—at that price any ISP with a broadband subscriber base has nothing to lose by giving iBEAM a long, hard look.

Education for Everyone Best of ISP-Lists
[March 8, 2001] Members of the ISP-Streaming Media list discuss sending educational content to areas that do not have basic telecommunications facilities. It's a dream of governments and charities—and there may be money in it.

Satellite Content Delivery:
Cidera's Internet Broadcast Backbone-Part 1 Lisa Phifer
[March 1, 2001] Could satellite systems turbocharge The Web without eating ISPs bandwidth? Cidera says yes, the solution lies in avoiding point-to-point delivery in favor of broadcasting content over terrestrial links.

Caching: How Real the Benefits?  Jim Thompson
[November 15, 1999] Caching has clearly found a niche in certain (mostly high-end) parts of the Internet access industry, but will it also serve the needs of smaller ISPs?

PBR or WCCP? Best of the ISP-Lists
[March 16, 2000]  The ISP-Caching list debates the best route for transparent caching.

Pending Protocol Promises ISP Revenue Opportunities  Lisa Phifer
[March 29, 2000]  The Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (iCAP), now a draft submission to the IETF, will enable ISPs to run locally targeted ads through improved cache response. It will also enable ISPs to offer virus scanning and other revenue-generating application services.

Content Delivery from the Source Lisa Phifer
[September 25, 2000] Clearway's Firesite sits on the origin server and ensures that content delivered to the network edge is always fresh.

Akamai Reaches Farther Alex Goldman [November 1, 2000] 
Most of Akamai's revenues are recurring revenues from current customers, a fact that is driving Akamai to extend services and to increase the number of Akamai POPs around the world. All of this is good news for ISPs.

Looking to Cache In? Best of ISP-Lists
[February 22, 2001] Members of the ISP-Caching list discuss everyone's first question: What's the best caching engine on the market. (Anyone making this decision should also check out ISP-Planet's Cache Review Series.)

Caching in on Cell Phone Browsing Alex Goldman
[February 28, 2001] BoostWorks is already a success in Europe and Asia, where the mobile Internet market is in full bloom. So the company is bringing its direct-to-browser content accelerator to the U.S. in search of mobile Web clients.

Caching 101

The Basics   Amit Pandey
[May 18, 1999] Caching is one of the year's hot technologies. ISPs are installing web caches everywhere. Cache guru Amit Pandey provides a look at the technology's fundamentals.

Deploying Caches Transparently  Amit Pandey
[May 28, 1999]  By deploying the cache between the network and the end-users, ISPs get the full benefit of scalability and high performance without having to configure each browser.

Cache & Content Control  Amit Pandey
[June 10, 1999] Since a web cache processes all content requests, it's a natural vehicle for content control via filtering. Combining the two lets you offer your customers customizable control—without performance losses.

What's the Return on Investment?  Amit Pandey
[June 24, 1999] Web caching improves performance, sure, but it can also boost your bottom line—in several ways. Here's how to calculate the return on your cache investment.

Streamlining Usenet Service  Amit Pandey
[July 22, 1999] A cache or two in the right place can boost the quality of your customers' Usenet experience and shrink your hardware and bandwidth budgets at the same time.

Cache Review Series

Caching Appliance Style: Quantex WebXL 2000  Lisa Phifer
[January 10, 2000]   Here's a stable, economical, easy-to-set-up system running Novell Internet Cache System software.

Fail-Safe Caching: InfoLibria DynaCache  Lisa Phifer
[January 17, 2000]   This is a solid web cache for high-availability networks—with a price that reflects the target market.

NICS with Integrated Management: Compaq TaskSmart Lisa Phifer
[January 24, 2000] Compaq has created an appliance-style cache system that addresses the management needs of both novice and experienced cache admins.

Predictive Caching: CacheFlow 545  Lisa Phifer
[February 3, 2000] The first unit to survive our tests without a reboot, the CacheFlow 545 offers many innovative features, including an intriguing hybrid config interface and a proactive 'adaptive refresh' algorithm.

Multiprotocol Caching: NetApp NetCache C720s  Lisa Phifer
[February 14, 2000] The NetCache C720s provides a full-featured, versatile platform for ISPs who want to cache streaming multimedia and/or news, as well as Web traffic.

Do-It-Yourself Caching: Squid 2.3  Lisa Phifer 
[February 28, 2000] This open source solution is a great low-cost way to get into caching. It's far from 'cost-free.' though, since a stable Squid installation calls for some fairly hefty hardware.

Series Wrap-Up  Lisa Phifer 
March 6, 2000] We finish up our cache review series with a head-to-head comparison of the six reviewed products across all of our evaluation criteria.