Transparent, inline
Steer traffic to Hoard-XDN with a bridge, policy route or WCCP-style redirect. No proxy settings on any device — subscribers just get faster downloads.
Transparent HTTP caching · v7.2.54
The smart cache that pays for itself.
Hoard-XDN sits inline in your network and quietly hoards the traffic your subscribers pull again and again — OS & game updates, app stores, video, CDN objects — then serves it locally. Your upstream link stops carrying the same bytes twice.
- Request hit ratio
- 0%
- Bytes served from cache
- 0%
- Requests handled
- 0
Measured on a live Hoard-XDN deployment. Your numbers depend on your traffic mix.
Engineered by Wizards Services — ISP & network systems since 2005
Ships as a bare-metal / VM installer ISO
The problem
You pay for the same bytes over and over.
Every Windows update, every 80 GB game patch, every viral video and app-store download crosses your upstream link once per subscriber. On a busy access network that is thousands of identical transfers — the exact traffic you are billed for on transit, and the exact traffic that congests your peak hour.
Hoard-XDN breaks that pattern. It keeps one local copy and hands it to everyone else at line rate. The content arrives faster for the subscriber, and it never touches your upstream again.
- Cut transit & peering bills — offload the repeatable half of your traffic.
- Tame the peak hour — cached delivery relieves your upstream when it hurts most.
- Faster for subscribers — popular downloads come from inside your network.
- Drop-in — transparent, no client configuration, no support tickets.
What's inside
A caching engine built for real ISP traffic.
Tiered RAM + disk
Hot objects live in a fast memory tier; everything else spills to a disk pool that scales into the tens of terabytes. A 7-day freshness floor keeps cacheable content ready.
AI-assisted policy
An optional Claude-backed advisor tunes caching heuristics to your real traffic. No key? It falls back to fast, deterministic rules — never a hard dependency.
DNS-aware
A built-in resolver handles CDN-origin resolution and sinkholing, so cache placement follows the content — not a stale hostname.
QoS that hits back
Cache hits are DSCP-marked (AF41) so you can prioritise locally-served traffic — savings and speed in one policy.
Coalescing & resilience
Simultaneous requests for the same object are collapsed into one origin fetch, and Hoard-XDN serves stale on origin errors — so a flaky upstream never becomes an outage.
Proactive prefill
Warm the cache with the content you know is coming, so the first subscriber to ask is already a hit.
Dashboard & watchdog
A live web dashboard shows hit ratio, bytes saved and health in real time, while a self-healing guardian rebuilds the index and watches memory — carrier-grade uptime.
How it works
Inline in an afternoon. Saving by the evening.
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Insert it in the path
Install the ISO on a box or VM and point subscriber traffic through it — bridge, policy-route or redirect. Nothing on the client side changes.
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It learns & hoards
Hoard-XDN watches what your network pulls and stores the repeatable objects across its RAM and disk tiers, coalescing duplicate fetches as it goes.
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Hits serve locally
The next request for that object is a HIT — delivered from inside your network at full speed and DSCP-marked so your routers prioritise it.
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You watch it pay off
The dashboard shows hit ratio and bytes offloaded climbing. That's transit bandwidth you no longer buy.
From a live deployment
Numbers from a Hoard-XDN node in production.
64%request hit ratio
~33 TBserved from cache
47%of all bytes offloaded
320M+requests handled
66 TBtiered cache pool
40-coresingle node throughput
A single production node. Every network is different — request a quote and we'll estimate your savings from your own traffic profile.
Pricing
Licensed per node. Sized to your network.
No public price list — because a single edge box and a carrier core aren't the same deal. Tell us your scale and we'll quote licensing, and optionally deployment and support.
Edge
Single-site ISPs, WISPs & campuses
- One Hoard-XDN node
- Transparent caching + dashboard
- RAM + disk tiers
- Email support
Carrier
Growing ISPs & regional providers
- Multiple nodes
- DSCP/QoS router & firewall integration
- AI-assisted policy advisor
- Proactive prefill
- Priority support
Enterprise
Carriers & multi-POP networks
- High-availability clusters
- Custom capacity & tuning
- Deployment by Wizards Services
- 24/7 support & SLA
Get a quote
Tell us about your network.
Give us a sense of your scale and we'll come back with a right-sized proposal — licensing, hardware guidance and an estimate of what Hoard-XDN would offload for you.
- Email [email protected]
- Or fill the form — we usually reply within one business day.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Do my subscribers have to configure anything?
No. Hoard-XDN is transparent. You steer traffic to it at the network level; devices need no proxy settings and users notice nothing but faster downloads.
What kind of content does it cache?
The repeatable, high-volume traffic that dominates access networks: OS and game updates, app-store and package-repository downloads, software installers, video and CDN-delivered objects. That's exactly the traffic that otherwise crosses your upstream once per user.
How much can I actually save?
It tracks your traffic mix, but repeat-heavy networks cache very well — a live node is running at a 64% request hit ratio and serving ~47% of bytes from cache. We'll estimate your savings from your own profile before you commit.
What hardware do I need?
Hoard-XDN ships as a 2.8 GB installer ISO for bare metal or a VM. It scales with what you give it — a single edge box for a small ISP, up to multi-core carrier nodes with tens of terabytes of cache pool.
Does it work with my routers and firewalls?
Yes — it is vendor-neutral. Cache hits are DSCP-marked (AF41), so any router or firewall can prioritise locally-served traffic with a standard QoS policy. Deployment guidance is part of what we provide.
How is it licensed and supported?
It's a licensed commercial product from Wizards Services, sold per node with activation. Support tiers run from email up to 24/7 with an SLA, and we can handle the deployment for you. Request a quote to size it.