diff --git a/cas-client-support-distributed-memcached/pom.xml b/cas-client-support-distributed-memcached/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f68acc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cas-client-support-distributed-memcached/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>cas-client</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
+        <version>3.1.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <artifactId>cas-client-support-distributed-memcached</artifactId>
+    <name>Jasig CAS Client for Java - Distributed Proxy Storage Support: Memcached</name>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
+            <artifactId>cas-client-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+            <type>jar</type>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- available from http://code.google.com/p/spymemcached/ -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>spy</groupId>
+            <artifactId>memcached</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
+        <testSourceDirectory>src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
+        <testResources>
+            <testResource>
+                <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>false</filtering>
+            </testResource>
+        </testResources>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.5</source>
+                    <target>1.5</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <includes>
+                        <include>**/*Tests*</include>
+                    </includes>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-clover-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <licenseLocation>${basedir}/src/test/clover/clover.license</licenseLocation>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>pre-site</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>instrument</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
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diff --git a/cas-client-support-distributed-memcached/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/proxy/MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl.java b/cas-client-support-distributed-memcached/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/proxy/MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4359f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cas-client-support-distributed-memcached/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/proxy/MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009 The JA-SIG Collaborative. All rights reserved. See license
+ * distributed with this file and available online at
+ * http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/overview/license/index.html
+ */
+package org.jasig.cas.client.proxy;
+
+import net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of the {@link org.jasig.cas.client.proxy.ProxyGrantingTicketStorage} interface that is backed by
+ * Memcache for distributed web applications.
+ *
+ * @author Scott Battaglia
+ * @version $Revision$ $Date$
+ * @since 3.1.9
+ */
+public final class MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl implements ProxyGrantingTicketStorage {
+
+    private final MemcachedClient client;
+
+    /**
+     * Default constructor reads from the /casclient_memcached_hosts.txt in the classpath.  Each line should be a host:port
+     * combination of memcached servers.
+     */
+    public MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl() {
+        this(getHostsFromClassPath());
+    }
+
+    protected static String[] getHostsFromClassPath() {
+        final InputStream inputStream = MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl.class.getResourceAsStream("/cas/casclient_memcached_hosts.txt");
+        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
+        final List<String> hosts = new ArrayList<String>();
+
+        String line;
+        try {
+            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                hosts.add(line);
+            }
+
+            return hosts.toArray(new String[hosts.size()]);
+        } catch (final IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } finally {
+            try {
+                reader.close();
+            } catch (final IOException e) {
+                // nothing to do
+            }
+
+            try {
+                inputStream.close();
+            } catch (final IOException e) {
+                // do nothing
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public MemcachedBackedProxyGrantingTicketStorageImpl(final String[] hostnamesAndPorts) {
+        final List<InetSocketAddress> addresses = new ArrayList<InetSocketAddress>();
+
+        for (final String hostname : hostnamesAndPorts) {
+            final String[] hostPort = hostname.split(":");
+            addresses.add(new InetSocketAddress(hostPort[0], Integer.parseInt(hostPort[1])));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            this.client = new MemcachedClient(addresses);
+        } catch (final IOException e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    public void save(final String proxyGrantingTicketIou, final String proxyGrantingTicket) {
+        handleSynchronousRequest(this.client.add(proxyGrantingTicketIou, 120, proxyGrantingTicket));
+    }
+
+    public String retrieve(final String proxyGrantingTicketIou) {
+        return (String) this.client.get(proxyGrantingTicketIou);
+    }
+
+    public void cleanUp() {
+        // we actually don't have anything to do here, yay!
+    }
+
+    private void handleSynchronousRequest(final Future f) {
+        try {
+            f.get();
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            // ignore these.
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 755c532..8fe880a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@
     <modules>
         <module>cas-client-core</module>
         <module>cas-client-integration-atlassian</module>
-        <module>cas-client-support-distributed</module>
+        <module>cas-client-support-distributed-ehcache</module>
+        <module>cas-client-support-distributed-memcached</module>
     </modules>
 
     <properties>