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From Technologies and Issues for Virtual University HPDC95 Tutorial Pentagon City -- August 1 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color GIF
- Caching can either be teacher driven (preselect material) or student driven as in computer paging
- As education naturally has groups (a class) of over 20 students browsing related material one can expect caching to be very effective
- Caching helps with both bandwidth and ensuring students browse relevant and appropriate material
- Experiments by NASA Langley find that 95% of material accessed by students is found in Cache -- implies that 28.8kbaud connection purchased by the school ÒactsÓ like a dedicated T1
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