MACROMEDIA FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2-USING FLASH MEDIA SERVER EDGE SERVERS Use Manual page 8

Users in these zones always access the origin server through their assigned edge servers. These
edge servers receive the responses from the origin server, then distribute them back to the
clients (the users' computers) in their respective zones: Paris or Tokyo. The edge also stores the
data received from the origin server in a cache, and makes it available to other clients that
connect to this edge server. Recycling the data is one more way that edge servers use resources
efficiently. Caching static content reduces the overall load placed on the origin server.
A networked Flash Media Server deployment involves multiple edge servers; these can be
deployed individually or in clusters. Edge servers can also be chained, where one edge server
collects and aggregates the connection requests from other edge servers and their clients, then
transmits the requests to an origin server.
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