Intelligence
Network address translation:
- Offloads NAT from web-cache
Authentication:
- Web-sites may use client source-IP address based authentication
- Redirector can be dynamically programmed to not redirect connections for non-cacheable sites
Content-driven caching:
- Some information is non-cacheable (eg: POSTs etc)
- Redirector can be programmed to not send this info to cache
- Redirector can be programmed to not redirect some content types
Support for caching different application protocols
- FTP, NNTP, Streaming Audio, Video