In Whitt's Monday blog post, he defended edge caching as an already common practice, offered by companies such as Akamai, Limelight and Amazon.com's Cloudfront, and used by broadband providers to distribute Web content. "Google and many other Internet companies also deploy servers of their own around the world ... These solutions help broadband providers by minimizing the need to send traffic outside of their networks and reducing congestion on the Internet's backbones. In fact, caching represents one type of innovative network practice encouraged by the open Internet." Google's colocation agreements with broadband providers are nonexclusive, meaning other online companies can make the same agreements, Whitt added. Full Article at ComputerWorld