<p>A data caching method and equipment. The data caching method comprises: receiving data and obtaining source information of the data; searching a caching address index list to find out whether a data caching channel is allocated for the source information, in which, the caching address index list records the source information of each data caching channel; if a data caching channel is allocated for the source information, the received data is cached in the found data caching channel. The data caching method and the equipment provided by the embodiments of the invention can be applied to caching the group type data.</p>