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Welcome to a faster network.
Traffic Server speeds Internet access, enhances web site performance, and delivers unprecedented web
hosting capabilities.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
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What is Traffic Server?‚ on page 1
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Traffic Server deployment options‚ on page 1
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Traffic Server components‚ on page 3
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Traffic analysis options‚ on page 5
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Traffic Server security options‚ on page 5
What is Traffic Server?
The dream of global data networking has come true. Internet users request billions of documents each day all
over the world. Unfortunately, this dream of global data networking has become a nightmare for information
systems professionals as they struggle with overloaded servers and congested networks, trying to keep pace
with society’s growing data demands.
Traffic Server is a high-performance web proxy cache that improves network efficiency and performance by
caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network. This brings content physically closer to
end users for faster delivery and dramatically reduces bandwidth usage.
Traffic Server is designed to improve content delivery for enterprises, Internet Service Providers (ISPs),
backbone providers, and large intranets by maximizing existing bandwidth.
Traffic Server deployment options
Traffic Server can be deployed in different ways to best suit your needs and your environment:
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As a web proxy cache
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As a reverse proxy
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In a cache hierarchy
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In a Traffic Server cluster
The following sections provide a summary of the Traffic Server deployment options.
1 Overview
IMPORTANT
The paths to files used in the manual are the following:
For Command files:
/home/TS4/<version>/bin
For Configuration files:
/home/TS4/<version>/config
For Log files:
/home/TS4/<version>/logs
In each path reference, replace
<version>
with the version number that was installed
in the
/home/TS4
directory.