Alteon Networks and Sandpiper Networks Join Forces to Deliver Innovative Worldwide Content Distribution Service.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 1998-- Companies Combine Advanced Network Technology and New Content Distribution Service to Increase Web Site Capacity and Performance for Web Publishers Alteon Networks and Sandpiper sandpiper, common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew. Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all Networks today announced that they are working together to improve web site performance and reliability for web publishers. Under the agreement, the companies are combining Alteon Networks' ACEdirector Internet Traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. Director with Sandpiper's new global distribution service, Footprint(SM) the industry's first adaptive content distribution service for web publishers. The technology partnership satisfies growing customer demand for a comprehensive and tightly-integrated solution to improve web site performance and availability -- especially during peak traffic surges. As a result, Sandpiper and Alteon Networks have certified the interoperation of Footprint and Alteon ACEdirector, and will work together to provide innovative technology and service solutions to Internet publishers. As part of the agreement, Sandpiper and Alteon Networks will resell each other's products and services to web publishers requiring both high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and global content delivery. "From day one, we were adamant about providing web publishers with the highest performing content distribution service possible," said Dave Farber, chief technology officer for Sandpiper Networks. "Since we've thoroughly tested and now use Alteon Network's switches in our distribution network, we look forward to working with Alteon to provide publishers with solutions that leverage the strengths oic infrastructure supplier for its new Footprint service, Sandpiper has now deployed Alteon Networks' ACEdirandpiper Content Distributors. Content Dispiper has currently deployed more than 32 Content Distributors, representing more than one terabyte of collecbalcenter, TCG/Cerfnet and Concentric Network. dpiper and Alteon are researching other cooperative opportunities to more closely integrate each other's tectent distribution services to web publishers andunded by Brentwood Venture Capital, Media Technology Ventures and Mission Ventures, Sandpiper raised $6.6 miteon Networks Inc. Based in San Jose, Ca products including award-winning 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet server switches, advanced load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them session hen connected to high-speed local area networks cluding 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. , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Silicon Graphics and Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything as well as select value-added resellers. The company was founded in May of 1996 and is privately held. Visit Alteon Networks on the World Wide Web at www.alteon.com. |
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