Goals and Methods

This book will first introduce you to some basic underlying networking technologies, which have been around for quite a while but that content networking uses in new and unique ways to accelerate your applications.

Once you understand the underlying technologies, this book uses the divide-and-conquer approach to address the single broad topic of content networking. By further isolating and examining content networking's constituent technologies, you avoid the blurring and generalizing that tend to occur when discussing content networking. Covering each subtopic and its interdependencies in detail will give you valuable insight into the overall topic of content networking, without minimizing the importance of each subtechnology.