Is caching available in WSA 670

[bijin bharathan]

Hi all,

Is caching available in WSA ?.I think this will help us to reduce the bandwidth consumption.

Thanks

Bijin

[Ken Stieers]

Yes.

Security Services>Web Proxy>Edit Settings button

Caching is the second option down.  Its enabled by default.

Ken

[ravmadir]

Bijin,

Yes - Web security appliance also acts as a proxy device and provides caching option. In todays deynamic web, most of the content is not-cache worthy as the data chnages so dynamic rate. However, if there is a specific pattern in you network where the end-users tend to access data which is relatively less dynamic, then it should help you in saving bandwidth.

Thanks,

Satish

[bijin bharathan]

Thanks Ken and Satish for quick reply.

My concern here  is that if i am downloading same file in 7 laptops one by one....so after the 1st download all other laptop should take the file from cache right?...which i didn.t see here....

I have seen this in bluecoat.Is there any difference in caching here in ironport?.