ADVISORY/Keynote Y2K Internet Performance Hotline to Provide Hourly Updates on How the Internet Survives Y2K -- Call Press Hotline at 650/522-1234.Business & News Editors ADVISORY...for Saturday (Jan. 1) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
What: The Keynote Y2K Internet Performance Hotline available to the
press for hourly updates on the effect of Y2K on the Internet
over New Years. Call the Hotline at 650/522-1234. To receive
automatic email summaries of the Keynote Y2K Internet Performance
results, send an email request to press@keynote.com.
Keynote (Nasdaq:KEYN), the Internet performance authority(TM),
will measure and report on the performance and availability of the
Internet in all global time zones as the year 2000 rolls in around the
planet. Keynote will serve as an unbiased resource for information and
analysis of its real impact.
Press and analysts researching or writing on the effects of Y2K
on the Internet over the Millennium turnover are invited to call the
Hotline for hourly updates. Keynote is also available for quantitative
data and commentary:
-- To talk with a Keynote representative the week prior to New
Year's Eve, contact one of the Keynote PR team listed here.
-- Keynote representatives will be available on New Year's Eve
and New Year's Day. Please leave a message on the Hotline,
as instructed by the Hotline recording.
When: The Keynote Y2K Internet Performance Hotline is currently
operating and is providing information regarding Keynote's Y2K
measurement methodology. The Hotline will be updated hourly on
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 to report on Internet performance and
availability as the Millennium begins in the Pacific and sweeps
across the time zones of the world. Y2K Internet Performance
results will also be posted on Keynote's web site at
www.keynote.com.
How: The infrastructure of the Internet is one of the world's largest
distributed computing systems. It comprises millions of routers,
switches, DNS servers and other specialized computers that manage
and carry Internet traffic between World Wide Web sites and user
PCs. A Y2K problem in any of these components could produce a
cascading effect on Internet performance and availability.
Keynote will measure a major web site in each of the 24 global
time zones from Keynote's global network of measurement computers in
over 90 locations around the world. This will provide an immediate
perspective on the effect of Y2K based on over 200,000 measurements
each day during the global Millennium change. Benchmark measurements
of the selected web sites have already begun.
The selected web sites that Keynote is measuring for the Keynote
Y2K Internet Performance Hotline and report are physically located in
all the major time zones across the world, from Tonga in the Pacific
on the western side of the international date line to Hawaii on the
eastern side.
As the Millennium arrives in each time zone, the web sites and
Internet infrastructure in that time zone may experience Y2K failures
that could lead to performance and availability failures. Keynote's
measurement computers will indicate infrastructure malfunctions if web
sites in an area become inaccessible.
The measured web sites include the following:
Relative
Time Zone Location Web Site
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00:00 Tonga www.candw.to
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-01:00 Fiji www.fiji-online.com.fj
New Zealand www.govt.nz
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-02:00 Khabarovsk, Russia www.iks.ru
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-03:00 Sydney, Australia www.sydney.com.au
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-03:30 Adelaide, Australia www.adelaide.com.au
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-04:00 Brisbane, Australia www.brisbaneonthenet.com
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-05:00 Japan www.matsushita.co.jp
South Korea www.oracle.co.kr
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-06:00 Hong Kong www.china.com
Taiwan www.sina.com.tw
China www.peopledaily.com.cn
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-07:00 Thailand www.inet.co.th
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-08:00 Sri Lanka www.ccom.lk
Novosibirsk, Russia www.nsc.ru
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-08:30 India www.nic.in
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-09:00 Pakistan www.pak.gov.pk
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-10:00 Tbilisi, Georgia www.sanet.ge
Dubai, UAE www.emix.net
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-10:30 Iran www.iranet.net.ir
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-11:00 Moscow, Russia www.msu.ru
Kuwait www.kuwait.net
--------------- ----------------------------- ------------------------
-12:00 Kiev, Ukraine www.kiev.ua
Israel www.netvision.net.il
South Africa www.mweb.co.za
About Keynote Keynote is the largest provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services to companies that operate e-commerce web-sites. The company markets Keynote Perspective(TM) and Keynote Lifeline(TM), global real-time services that measure, assure and improve the Quality of Service of e-commerce web-sites around the world. The company captures over 15 million performance measurements daily using Keynote's global infrastructure of over 220 measurement computers connected to the major Internet backbones A group of communications networks managed by several commercial companies that provide the major high-speed links across the country. ISPs are either connected directly to these backbones or to a larger regional ISP that is connected to one. in over 90 statistically selected Internet access See how to access the Internet. locations across 45 metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet performance and availability data are collected at Keynote's sophisticated operations center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. and are instantly available to customers through any web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Keynote customers include over 500 leading e-commerce web-sites and hosting companies including AdForce (Nasdaq:ADFC ADFC Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad Club ADFC Australian Defence Force Cadets ADFC Altimetry Data Fusion Center ADFC Alcohol and Drug Free Community ADFC Advanced Digital Fire Control ), Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), CDNow (Nasdaq:CDNW), Compaq Computer (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ), Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Dell Computer (Nasdaq:DELL), Digex (Nasdaq:DIGX), DoubleClick (Nasdaq:DCLK DCLK Doubleclick Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) DCLK Deputy Clerk DCLK Digital Clock DCLK Double Click ), Exodus Communications Exodus Communications was a high-flying internet hosting and service provider to dot-com businesses that went broke along with their customers. Exodus inception Exodus was founded in 1992 as Fouress, Inc., and reincorporated in 1994 to Exodus Communications. (Nasdaq:EXDS), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM (Network and System Management) Running and controlling the networks and computer systems in an enterprise. See network management. ) and SABRE Holdings Sabre Holdings or Sabre, Inc. is an American travel technology company, encompassing several brands in three global travel distribution channels: travel agency, airline, and direct to consumer. These areas are serviced by TSG's three main business groups. (NYSE:TSG TSG The Smoking Gun (web site) TSG Technology Services Group (UK) TSG Technical Specification Group TSG Timing Signal Generator TSG Technical Support Group TSG Tumor Suppressor Gene TSG ThermoSalinoGraph ). For further information about Keynote, visit the Keynote web-site at http://www.keynote.com or contact the company at Keynote Systems Keynote Systems, Inc. provides measurement and monitoring, service level and customer experience management services to customers to improve e-business performance by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction and increasing profitability. , Inc., 2855 Campus Dr., San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , CA 94403, telephone 650/522-1000, fax 650/522-1099, email info@keynote.com. Note to Editors: Keynote, Perspective, Lifeline, AccuStat, MyKeynote and The Internet Performance Authority are trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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