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edge cache

A distributed cache of content served from geographically-close points-of-presence (PoPs) to reduce latency and origin-server load. Adult tube sites are among the largest single users of edge-cache infrastructure on the consumer internet by bytes-transferred; CDN economics shape the operating model materially.

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