Meta-Caching is an optimized caching service based on the new Meta-CDN architecture developed by ipercast. Caching encompasses all network solutions dedicated to improving website availability by bringing content as close to end users as possible. The distribution of your website is thus accelerated throughout the ipercast network, which integrates a wide range of partners.

More ubiquitous than ever, the Internet has become driver for business growth. Web presence and visibility now have major strategic implications for businesses. In this new era, an underperforming Web service can dramatically impact on a company’s bottom line and brand image.

This change calls for a new approach based on the need to satisfy ever more demanding consumer expectations in terms of Web service quality, with a view to improving customer loyalty.

Today, low Web service quality standards = loss of business opportunities.

The Meta-Caching solution is specifically designed to both increase the performance of your Web services and reduce your costs related to Web content delivery. This is achieved through full website replication or optimized distribution processes for individual objects such as videos, high resolution images, programmes or files.

The Meta-Caching service is an end-to-end solution intended for all businesses that require a high-performing website with redundancy capabilities, and want to optimize the distribution of their multimedia objects, especially those targeting a global audience.

Foreseeable economies of scale
The improvement in website responsiveness delivered by the Meta-Caching solution offers many benefits to businesses :

• Improved audience loyalty and monetization,
• Immediate bandwidth cost savings in the operating budget,
• Savings related to minimizing the need for new server rollouts in the investment budget.

Global-scale service provision
The Meta-Caching service relies on a global network, integrating more than 100 points of presence spread over four continents – Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania.

Risk reduction through service redundancy
Businesses have been relying on single service providers for far too long.
Meta-Caching guarantees Web business continuity and dilutes the risk of interruption through a global-scale, redundant network.

Optimal configuration at all times and everywhere
The Meta-Caching solution from ipercast guarantees the highest performing service, through continuing improvement of the aggregated partner aggregated networks. This commitment to consistent performance is backed by constant service quality monitoring, carried out independently by IP Label, the European leader of trusted third party services.

The benefits of a one-stop shop
The Meta-Caching solution from ipercast is designed as a commercial and operating one-stop shop, with:

• a unique point of contact,
• a single consolidated contract,
• a single consolidated invoice
• a Web interface dedicated to secure monitoring and management, available in outsourcing or operator mode depending on your specific needs.

The Meta-Caching solution is based on the Meta-CDN architecture, a technological innovation from ipercast which integrates a number of partners, carefully selected on the strength of their network’s geographic coverage and their specific benefits.

The innovation lies in a software solution that optimizes traffic within the meta-network by identifying and using only the best performing points of presence. Content is routed according to actual observed quality levels, based on continuous monitoring of the federated networks. The following indicators are monitored:

• DNS response time ,
• Connexion latency,
• Download speed.

By absorbing load peaks and ensuring the safety and integrity of your data, this unique solution guarantees the highest levels of accessibility and reliability for your Web services and their users, at all times and everywhere.