Adero Strengthens Alliance With Inktomi to Extend Content Delivery and E-Commerce Services; Inktomi Makes Strategic Investment in Adero.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON and LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000 Investment to Support Adero's Rapid Acceleration Growth Plan in Global Content Distribution and E-Commerce Marketplace Adero, Inc., a leader in global content, application and e-commerce distribution services, and Inktomi Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : INKT INKT Inktomi, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) INKT I Never Knew That ) today announced a strategic investment and an agreement to significantly extend Adero's global intelligent network, making it one of the largest in the world. Under the agreement, Adero will deploy over 1,500 Inktomi Traffic Server and Inktomi Content Delivery Suite nodes across and at the edge of Adero's network-independent AderoWorld(TM) Service backbone. Adero will continue to rapidly expand its worldwide network and its service offerings with Inktomi Traffic Server and Content Delivery Suite. Inktomi's technology provides Adero with advanced content distribution and management services including assured content freshness and global synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. ; controlled content deployment; centralized management for billing and monitoring purposes as well as significant bandwidth savings. As part of today's announcement, Adero will also be able to deliver higher quality streaming content on its network using Inktomi's media caching technology. "Inktomi's investment, as the first in our strategic round, further highlights industry acceptance of Adero as a leading service provider in global e-commerce," said Jonathan Crane, chief executive officer of Adero. "This strong vote of confidence in Adero's business approach and expanded relationship with the world's leading supplier of network caching technology will ignite the next phase of Adero's explosive growth." Adero is designed for network-independent distribution and e-commerce services, minimizing the number of calls to the origin site, and reducing the latency in the global network. Adero is poised to lead in dynamic content generation and to distribute a global e-commerce transaction network. "This expanded alliance with Adero brings us closer to our mission of scaling the Internet," said David Peterschmidt, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Inktomi. "An important part of this goal is to provide the technology that fuels the growth of the content distribution and e-commerce marketplace, and we are pleased to see our technology adopted in another substantial network." About Inktomi Network Products Inktomi Network Products provide key infrastructure technology to optimize the delivery of content and applications in service provider and enterprise networks. The Network Products family consists of Inktomi Traffic Server, the leading network cache platform, and the Inktomi Content Delivery Suite, a robust solution for content distribution and management. By embedding programmable intelligence into the network, Inktomi Network Products provide the infrastructure for ISPs, backbone companies, hosting providers, and enterprises to deliver new services to end users. About Adero, Inc. Founded in 1998, Adero provides a global turnkey service that enables companies to create a rapid, consistent, and reliable Internet experience for online customers anywhere in the world. AderoWorld(TM) Service is a cost-effective solution for global e-Commerce companies, enabling rapid deployment of Web content, distributed applications and e-Commerce services, through the strategic placement of intelligent nodes in local markets around the world. Adero's network of intelligent nodes and patent-pending GeoTraffic(TM) Manager technology allow companies to overcome the complexities of building and managing infrastructures in foreign markets, as well as allow companies to reap the benefits of improved Web site performance and custom-tailored content. AderoWorld Service has over 43 strategically placed intelligent nodes in 28 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Adero, Inc., is a venture-funded company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , USA - www.adero.com. About Inktomi Based in Foster City, Calif., Inktomi (pronounced INK tuh me) (NASDAQ: INKT) develops and markets scalable software designed for the world's largest Internet infrastructure and media companies. Inktomi's portal services include the search, directory, and shopping engine applications; network products include the Traffic Server network cache platform, Content Delivery Suite, and associated value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. applications. Inktomi works with leading companies including America Online See AOL. , British Telecommunications, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Excite@Home, Intel, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Yahoo! The company has offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia, and Europe. For more information, visit www.inktomi.com. |
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