Would having local CDN caches help satellite-based
providers? Sure...
Could you explain that? Do you mean logically near the
ground stations?
I mean physically in the ISP's backbone.
They would use the satellite link for cache-fill, but then deliver
content locally. This should speed things up a great deal.
Having the cache on the other side of the satellite link doesn't help at
all, since the biggest latency tax is on the satellite link itself.
I had a funny thought... CDN in the satellite.
- don't give them ideas, hehe...
Mark.