Subject: LSAM Proxy Cache (LPC) - multicast web cache available

From: Joe Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:53:25 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

We hope this announcement will be of general interest to 
the networking and web-cache communities. Please pardon if
you receive multiple copies, due to mail-list overlap.

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LSAM Proxy Cache release 0.8 now available
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The USC/ISI LSAM project is pleased to announce a
new release of the LSAM Proxy Cache (LPC), v0.8.

The LPC is a modified Apache proxy cache that uses 
multicast push to support distributed multicast caching.  
The LSAM proxy uses multicast push based on interest groups,
to reduce server and network load, and increase client performance.

The code is distributed as FreeBSD 2.2.5/6 compatible versions of: 
        - LPC v0.8, a modified Apache proxy cache 1.3b1 
        - AFDP v0.98, a multicast file transfer protocol

Features of the LPC include:

        - automatic multicast push of web pages over channels
        
        - automatic configuration of the proxy hierarchy

	- a web-based user interface for status monitoring,
		configuration control, and manual override
	
		A demo version of this interface is available 
		(click "OK" at the prompt; no userID or password is required)
			http://mul.isi.edu/

	- an API for multicast cache control via HTTP or command-line access

For more information about the LSAM project, the LSAM Proxy Cache
current releases, and papers describing the architecture, 
see our web pages at:

        http://www.isi.edu/lsam

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Thanks,

Joe Touch
LSAM Project Leader
http://www.isi.edu/touch