“Google’s SPDY protocol is all about accelerating the web, with
one major caveat. SPDY only works with Google’s Chrome browser.
SPDY also benefits from SPDY protocol support on web servers, which
is where a new offering from site optimization vendor Strangeloop
comes into play.“The SPDY optimization reside on Strangeloop’s site optimizer
appliances which leverage Linux as the underlying operating
system.“We implement a proxy that speaks SPDY to the Chrome browser and
http to the server,” Strangeloop President, Joshua Bixby said.”
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