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Caching Google Play Applications for Deployment via EMM
Hi, Does Google offer any caching service to help reduce bandwidth usage when deploying apps through an EMM solution? For example, in the case of public iOS applications, Apple provides a Content C...
Nothing officially available through Google Play app distribution that I am aware of but there are concepts like Xtreme Hub for SOTI that offer a local relay server distribution method. This is incredibly helpful for the distribution of large files like firmware updates or large APKs to a location with a limited ISP connection that we often see in warehouses and retail stores. We use these relay servers to push the large file once through the ISP connection onto a local server in the environment from the primary cloud EMM. Devices then connect to that relay server on their local network to pull the files more directly without consuming ISP bandwidth.
