What the Excelerator Appliance Does

All appliance cache services include the basic functionality in Figure 2.

Figure 2

After a request has been cached, processing subsequent requests for the same objects is simpler and much faster.

Figure 3

Basic cache services fit in three categories:

• Accelerating browsers individually
• Accelerating all the browsers on a network
• Accelerating Web servers

Although these services are described separately, they can generally be combined and used simultaneously on a single appliance.