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How Web Caching Combats Network Congestion

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It’s no news that the internet is a system with huge distributed information that provides access to shared data objects for billions of users across the planet. However, in recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the size of the internet, which causes network congestion. For ISPs, this leads to bad user experience with internet performance resulting in increased demands to improve the web’s infrastructure. But expanding without any solutions will result in server overload and unacceptable service response times. To combat these issues, internet accelerator companies have come up with caching solutions that pre-fetch user details to speed up the performance of the internet. These network acceleration technologies are a great respite for ISPs or third-party servers who can deliver high-quality content to their users at significantly lesser load times and transit costs. There are many advantages of web caching, particularly HTTP traffic, which is why ISPs across the wo