Re: [squid-users] Squid in an ISP environment

Andrew Veitch wrote:

> On 23 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:17, Eka Sutresna wrote:
> >
> >>Does anybody here have an experience on installing, or at least know a
> >
> >reference site for Squid running on an ISP with 100K+ subscribers ?
>
> [...]
>
> >Also, there was the JaNet cache farm, but I believe that has closed
> >down. It must have served a pretty big user base as well.
>
>
> Official "switch off" date is 3rd December. In our heyday, we served most
> of UK academia, with some 175 million requests per day and an amalgamated
> bandwidth usage of some 350Mbps peak.
>
> Traffic is somewhat lower these days :-(

What's the story on that? I see that it is shutting down, and some
hints of new developments in 2003...So is Janet as a web cache hierarchy
coming back in a new form, or is she gone for good?

So much interesting stuff has come out of Janet over the years, it's sad
to see it go.

-- 
Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
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