CacheMAST (Cache Management Analysis and Visualisation Tool) is a tool designed to visualise cache management strategies across a content delivery chain for network and communications researchers and engineers. The tool helps simplify the analysis of how caching choices impact the usage of network and cache infrastructure resources, with the goal of giving a visual insight into the design of appropriate strategies for optimised content delivery. The tool allows the user to:

• Import and modify network topologies with varying cache and link capacities, and caching infrastructure;
• Configure network nodes and links with variable administrative costs and caching capabilities;
• Visualize the network and caching infrastructure;
• Simulate or import existing content delivery scenarios using various configuration settings;
• Visualize simulation results and statistics and export these in a standard format for future use.

This work received funding from the Flamingo Network of Excellence project (318488) of the EU Seventh Framework Programme, and the EPSRC KCN project (EP/L026120/1).