Your Excelerator appliance can dramatically improve the performance and response time of your Web site by offloading the burden of handling redundant content requests from the Web server.
After this has been done, the Web server can devote its bandwidth to handling requests for specific content and services and to supplying uncached and/or updated content to the appliance for subsequent caching.
You can also set the appliance to offload the request burden from a streaming media server.
Figure 6 illustrates how Web server acceleration services work.
Figure 6
For more about transparent proxy services, see Accelerating Web Servers, and Accelerating Streaming Media Servers.