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Open Caching Specifications and Technical Documents

The Open Caching Working Group has published a number of technical documents and specifications outlining functionality of the Open Caching Nodes, Control Plane, and other features. Click on either a Published or Draft Open Caching document to learn more and/or download.

Published

Open Cache Request Routing Functional Specification (Version 2.0)

This document describes the high-level functional specification of open caching request routing and the required interfaces to enable request routing to be performed from an upstream CDN to an open

Open Cache Request Routing Service Provisioning Interface Specification

This includes the functional specification of open-caching service provisioning interfaces enabling a CDN and an SP to exchange information to enable the delegation of CDN content requests to the SP

Open Cache Solution Functional Requirements Document

Problem statement and functional requirements of an open caching solution deployed by service providers to be used by content providers and content delivery networks.

Open Caching Performance Measurement Specification

This document outlines measurement metrics for open-caching. The focus of this document is to outline key performance indicators related to quality of service metrics at the open cache nodes that

Open Caching Configuration Interface: Part 3 – Publishing Layer APIs

This is part three in a set of documents that specifies the motivations, use cases, and standards for a configuration interface to facilitate interoperability within the content delivery network (CDN)

Open Caching Relayed Token Authentication

This document describes the functional specification of open-caching relayed-token-authentication mechanism.

Open Caching Content Management Operations Specification

This document describes the functional specification of the Open Caching Content Management interface and the functionality requirements from the SP Open Caching system.

Open Caching Configuration Interface: Part 1 – Overview and Architecture

This is the first document of the Streaming Video Alliance Configuration Interface. The goal is to simplify the management of CDN and Open Caches for content providers by defining one

Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2 – Extensions to CDNi Metadata Object Model

This is part two in a set of documents that specifies the motivational drivers, use cases, and standards for a configuration interface to facilitate interoperability within the content delivery network

Open Caching Logging Integration Functional Specification

This document describes the process of provisioning a Logging Integration between a CDN and an ISP in an Open Caching solution.

Open Cache Logging Requirements Specification

This includes the Open Caching System (OCS) technical specifications for logging data to help track data acquisition and the delivery of it to the end user.

Optimizing Video Delivery With The Open Caching Network

In this whitepaper, we illustrate how network operators can implement Open Caching nodes at the edge of their network, while adhering to specifications created by the Open Caching Working Group

(DRAFT) Home Storage Open Caching Node

The Home Storage Open Caching Node (HS-OCN) project adds functionality to the open caching system to further improve quality of experience (QoE) on networks with last mile challenges including speed