Apogee Networks and Volera Partner to Boost Customers' Bottom Lines.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2001 Combined Solution Empowers Enterprises, Service Providers and Content Producers to Tap New Revenue Opportunities Streaming Media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. West/Volera Inc., the leading provider of intelligent content networking solutions and a subsidiary of Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), today announced a technology partnership with Apogee Networks, the recognized global leader in content and Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) rating, billing and settlement solutions. The partnership incorporates Volera's Excelerator(TM) 2.0 caching and intelligent content networking solutions with Apogee Networks' NetCountant(R) product line to meet the expanding content management and settlement needs of enterprises and service providers in highly demanding network environments. News of the alliance comes following Monday's announcement of Volera's Velocity CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. , a suite of content networking software  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . products that serves enterprises and service providers with the tools, technologies and expertise they need to build a complete content distribution network. In addition to delivering unprecedented efficiency, control and scalability, Volera's Velocity CDN integrates with Apogee Networks' NetCountant products to offer flexible content usage-based accounting and billing solutions. This enables customers to effectively track content as it is distributed, producing a detailed accounting of traffic and bandwidth usage and revealing important revenue opportunities. Service providers require highly scalable and content-intelligent networks to meet the increasing demands for security, speed and streaming content. With the combined technologies of Volera's Velocity CDN and Apogee Networks' NetCountant Billing and Settlement, service providers will be able to introduce usage-based settlement models that include incentives to all parties involved in the delivery of content across complex networks and international timelines. A key factor in the development of new Content Revenue and Business models will be the ability to define, measure, rate and bill for content usage. Analysts have concluded that Content usage-based billing and revenue settlement solutions represent the next major development in Internet billing systems. Apogee Networks has emerged as the front leader in developing and deploying highly scalable, flexible and real-time applications for Content usage-base billing systems that allows Content Distributors, ASPs, ISPs, Carriers, and Wireless Internet Providers to rapidly implement new Business models. NetCountant Billing and Settlement allows companies to develop revenue-sharing and settlement systems, thus allowing all parties in the business of creating, distributing and delivering content to be compensated. Enterprise users tax network resources through the deployment of rich and streaming media applications, such as eLearning, Webcast communications, virtual collaboration Virtual Collaboration - Two or more people collaborating together to accomplish a task without the use of face to face interaction. Examples of Virtual Collaboration include Audio Conferencing, Video Conferencing, or Computer mediated communication. and more. These corporations can leverage Velocity CDN with NetCountant Accountability(TM) to more effectively manage the delivery of mission-critical data and communications, while providing internal accounting for charge-backs on content delivered to employees and business units. "Our customers have integrated our advanced settlement solutions into systems that support and process billions of content transactions per day. They require the processing power of high performance caching engines with advanced content delivery networking capabilities," said Ted Haller, Vice President of Business Development for Apogee Networks. "Through integration with Volera we are able to offer a high performance, end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. ." "The NetCountant product line compliments and enhances our Velocity CDN solutions, bringing uniquely compelling value to our respective existing and potential customers," said Gary Gysin, Vice President of Product Management and Business Development for Volera. "Together we provide both accounting and performance benefits, fulfilling customer demand for effective accounting and monetization." Under the terms of the technology partnership, Volera and Apogee Networks have agreed to complete interoperability between their respective products. The companies will provide training to their respective sales, support and engineering staffs, and will work together to ensure seamless upgrades for existing customers. About Apogee Networks Headquartered in Saddle Brook, New Jersey Saddle Brook is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,155. Saddle Brook adopted its current name on November 8, 1955, replacing Saddle River Township. , Apogee Networks, Inc. develops Content and IP Rating, Billing and Settlement solutions for Content Distributors, ASPs, ISPs, Carriers, Wireless Internet Providers and Enterprise customers. Apogee Networks' NetCountant(R) award-winning product line provides full end-to-end content, revenue settlement, IP billing and usage based chargeback Chargeback The charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. Notes: Customers dispute charges to their credit card usually when goods or services are not delivered within the solutions. Uniquely, NetCountant Billing provides real-time billing, flexible service creation and high scalability to meet the challenges of rapid customer growth. Apogee Networks' NetCountant Settlement provides advanced Content aggregation and revenue settlement capabilities. NetCountant Accountability provides Global 2000 Enterprise customers with the capability to better manage and allocate IP usage thereby realizing significant bandwidth cost savings. The company recently was awarded Finalist 2001 Best of Show NetWorld +Interop Award, Software Business Magazine's 2001 Software Industry Award, 2001 Frost and Sullivan Market Engineering Award for Product Innovation, 2001 OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Excellence Awards, Finalist/Runner-up, COMNET COMNET - A simulation tool from CACI for analysing wide-area voice or data networks, based on SIMSCRIPT. 2001 New Product Achievement Award, 2000 Communications ASP Product of the Year, 2000 Internet Telephony's Product of the Year Award, 1999 Telecom Business Top 500 Award and 1998 Best of Show NetWorld +Interop Award. Apogee Networks is a Charter member of the Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record IPDR International Project Development Roadmap (Canada) IPDR Internal Preliminary Design Review IPDR Individual Program Data Records ) Association. Investors include Banc of America Securities LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , 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. , Fidelity Ventures Fidelity Ventures is the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments. Based in Boston and London, Fidelity Ventures invests in emerging technology companies in North America and Europe. Limited, Granite Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, INTEL 64 Fund, BBVA BBVA Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (First Bank of Spain) , Net One Systems Co., Ltd., and CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center . For additional information call 1-888-APOGEE3 (276-4333), 1-201-368-8800,or email info@apogeenetworks.com or visit us at http://www.apogeenetworks.com. About Volera Volera, Inc. is transforming today's Internet into a fast, scaleable and reliable business tool by providing carrier-class telecommunications and network service providers as well as the enterprise with a comprehensive solution for managing the intelligent, efficient delivery of content. Velocity CDN(TM) comprises a full suite of content networking products and services that enable customers to accelerate the flow of data and inject extraordinary control over the delivery and management of content, rich and streaming media, secure data and countless Web-based applications. Volera's core technology is the Excelerator(TM) platform -- the fastest Internet caching technology in the industry based on third party testing. Volera Inc. is a subsidiary of Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL) with a strategic investment from Nortel Networks and equity participation from Accenture. More information on Volera can be found at http://www.volera.com |
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