BranchCache

BranchCache is a software-based WAN optimization technology designed to reduce bandwidth usage. Environments composed of supported operating systems can leverage the data-caching benefits of BranchCache. ConfigMgr can utilize BranchCache on applications, packages, and task sequences.

Say you deploy an application to a group of computers in a remote office. When Branch-Cache is utilized, the first client to retrieve the application content from a BranchCache-enabled DP caches it locally, making it available to other clients in its local subnet. Whenever another client requests the same content, it refers to the first client for the application; reducing the requirement to traverse the WAN to retrieve the same content. After that client ...

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