Edge Cache · Infrastructure Intelligence

High L2B? No Problem
Reduce cost, protect your supply channels.

LodgingBase Edge Cache sits between API consumers and your system. It absorbs up to 70% of search traffic before it ever costs you and your suppliers — while an AI freshness engine keeps every cached response accurate.

0%

Upstream traffic reduction

up to

<1,000 ms

Cached response time

average

0+

AI signals per decision

freshness model

0%

Booking path cached

always live

The supply chain problem

Every empty search costs
your suppliers too.

A 10,000:1 Look-to-Book ratio means 9,999 out of every 10,000 API calls flowing through your distribution stack return no booking. Each one taxes your supplier connections — consuming quota, burning rate limits, and increasing the risk of throttling that degrades real booking traffic.

The pressure compounds upstream. When your suppliers forward unfiltered search volume to their own inventory sources — GDS systems, aggregators, property management platforms — the cost multiplies. Suppliers notice. Relationships suffer. Quota allocations shrink.

Edge Cache intercepts that pressure before it propagates. Channel partners keep getting fast, accurate responses. Your suppliers see a fraction of the original call volume.

Real-world Look-to-Book ratio

1:10,000

searches per booking

Each tile = 100 requests1 booking

0.01% of traffic results in a booking

10,000:1

Searches per booking on high-volume channels

≤70%

Upstream calls Edge Cache eliminates

AI

Powers freshness decisions automatically

0%

Booking traffic ever cached — always live

AI-powered freshness

Cached does not mean stale.

The challenge with caching travel inventory is that rates and availability change continuously. A static TTL strategy either caches too aggressively — serving wrong prices — or too conservatively — defeating the purpose entirely.

LodgingBase Edge Cache uses a machine learning freshness model trained on booking velocity, price volatility, supplier update patterns, and seasonal demand signals. For every property-date-rate combination, it dynamically decides how long a cached response remains valid.

High-demand properties near check-in dates are revalidated frequently. Stable off-peak inventory carries longer TTLs. The model adapts continuously — reducing upstream calls without sacrificing accuracy.

Adaptive TTL per property, date range, and rate plan
Predictive invalidation before data goes stale
Price volatility weighting for high-change periods
Booking-safe: revalidation always runs before confirmation

AI Freshness Engine

Adaptive TTL per property, date & market

Live
Booking velocity82
Price change frequency64
Seasonal demand index91
Supplier update cadence47

Output — adaptive TTL decision

4 min

High-demand properties

22 min

Stable inventory

60 min

Off-peak dates

Traffic impact

Up to 70% fewer calls
reaching your suppliers.

At a 50:1 Look-to-Book ratio with one million daily searches, 980,000 of those requests are pure search traffic. Edge Cache serves the cacheable fraction directly — reducing what flows upstream to a controlled, predictable trickle.

The actual deflection rate depends on your traffic mix, supplier update frequency, and cache policy. For most deployments, 60–70% of upstream calls are eliminated within the first week.

Upstream supplier calls — before vs. after

Supplier calls (without cache)all search traffic forwarded
100%
Supplier calls (with Edge Cache)~30% — cache misses + bookings
30%
Search accuracy maintainedAI keeps data fresh
99%

* Illustrative values. Actual deflection rate varies by traffic profile and cache policy configuration.

Deployment

Live without touching your stack.

Edge Cache integrates as a transparent layer in front of your distribution chain. No supplier reconnections, no API changes, no downtime.

01

Route channel traffic through cache

We integrate you as a supplier. You generate API keys for your consumers and point them to Edge Cache. No developer work needed on your side. We act as a tech layer, do not trade on your behalf.

02

AI model learns your traffic patterns

The freshness engine analyses booking velocity, rate change frequency, and supplier update cadence to set adaptive TTLs for every property-date pair.

03

Cache serves searches, suppliers rest

Cacheable availability and rate queries are answered at the edge in under 5 ms. Only cache misses and booking requests reach your suppliers.

04

Bookings always go live — guaranteed

Every reservation request bypasses the cache entirely and is proxied directly to your supplier. No cached data ever influences a booking outcome.

Architecture

Suppliers protected. Partners satisfied.

Inventory flows from your supplier chain into the cache. Channel partners get fast, accurate responses. Suppliers see only a fraction of the traffic.

Consumers

OTAs · Resellers
Meta-search

search flood

EDGE
CACHE
AI Freshness

≤30% passes

Your System

Bookings &
cache misses only

Search traffic — absorbedCache misses — forwardedBookings — always live

≤70%

Traffic absorbed

<100 ms

Cached response

0%

Bookings cached

Before & after

What changes.

The operational differences from day one of Edge Cache deployment.

Dimension
Without Edge Cache
With Edge Cache
Supplier API calls for search traffic
100% forwarded upstream
Up to 70% served from cache
Upstream supplier quota consumption
Proportional to L2B ratio
Dramatically reduced
Data freshness method
Static TTL or always-live
AI-adaptive per property & date
Rate change accuracy
Depends on polling frequency
AI predicts invalidation timing
Supplier relationship pressure
High — throttling risk
Protected — controlled call rate
Cache hit on booking path
Never — always live
Deployment
No code changes required
Platform

Built for enterprise distribution.

Every capability is designed for the reliability, freshness, and supplier-safety demands of bedbanks, wholesalers, and DMCs.

AI freshness engine

Adaptive TTLs driven by 12+ signals — booking velocity, price volatility, supplier cadence, and seasonal patterns. No manual TTL tuning required.

Supplier quota protection

Controlled upstream call rates protect your supplier API quotas from search floods, reducing throttling risk and preserving allocation for real bookings.

Sub-100ms edge responses

Globally distributed cache nodes serve available inventory in under 100 ms — faster than any live supplier call, regardless of geography.

Booking-safe by design

The booking path is architecturally excluded from caching. Every reservation, modification, and cancellation goes directly to your supplier, live.

Real-time observability

Cache hit rates, upstream deflection, freshness violations, and supplier call volume — updated live and exportable to your BI stack.

Usage-based pricing

You pay for deflected requests only. The more search pressure your channel partners create, the more value Edge Cache returns — structurally self-funding.

Protect your suppliers.
Reduce your costs.

Share your current traffic volume and Look-to-Book ratio. We will model the upstream call reduction and walk you through the deployment — no commitment required.

Most deployments are live within a business day.

Lodging Base

Connecting the travel supply chain with innovative distribution technology.