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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Bits PeerCaching

Bits PeerCaching

Peer caching is a new feature of BITS 3.0 that allows peer computers (computers within the same subnet of a network that have the peer caching feature enabled) to share files. If peer caching is enabled on a computer, the Automatic Update agent instructs BITS to make downloaded files available to that computer's peers as well.
When the files have been downloaded, BITS caches them. When another peer caching-enabled computer tries to download the same update, BITS on that computer sends a multicast request to all of that computer's peers. If one or more of the peers responds to the request, BITS will download the file from the first computer to respond. If the download from the peer fails or takes too long, BITS continues the download from the server.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc734631(WS.10).aspx

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