ArrowPoint Ships 5,000 CS-800 Ports, Achieving World's Largest Installed Base of Carrier-Class Web Switches for the Web Commerce Infrastructure.ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1999-- Strong product acceptance, sales expansions and new executive appointments accelerate ArrowPoint market momentum ArrowPoint Communications today announced that during the second half of 1999, it has shipped more than 5,000 carrier-class Web switch ports to high-end application service providers (ASPs), broadband services leaders, PTTs and hundreds of the industry's highest-volume Web commerce sites. Shipping 5,000 CS-800 ports in just six months has given ArrowPoint the world's largest installed base of carrier-class content-aware network solutions capable of full Layer 5 uniform resource locator See URL. (World-Wide Web) Uniform Resource Locator - (URL, previously "Universal") A standard way of specifying the location of an object, typically a web page, on the Internet. Other types of object are described below. (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. )- and cookie-switching. To accommodate the growth from its accelerating market momentum, ArrowPoint has relocated to expanded corporate headquarters in Acton, Mass., to house a broadening employee base of nearly 140 technology professionals. In addition, ArrowPoint recently appointed Lou Volpe as president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . His strong track record in growing small technology companies into market leaders will accelerate ArrowPoint's successful, worldwide expansion. To better service demand for the unique Web content services ArrowPoint enables, the company has also established regional sales operations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. , Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Canada. With this announcement, ArrowPoint demonstrates its leadership in the emerging market for Web content services. Customers using ArrowPoint's CS-800 Web switches and content services include broadband leaders Road Runner road runner: see cuckoo. Road Runner thrives on outwitting Wile E. Coyote. [Comics: “Beep Beep the Road Runner” in Horn, 105] See : Cunning Road Runner and Lyonnaise ly·on·naise adj. Cooked with onions: lyonnaise potatoes; potatoes lyonnaise. [From French (à la) Lyonnaise, (in the manner) of Lyon, from Lyon. Cable; international providers such as Infostrada, T-Online and Telefonica; high-end ASPs Exodus, Global Crossing and NaviSite; and some of the hardest-hit sites on the Web, including Nettaxi.com, MotherNature.com, toysmart.com, and RagingBull.com. "In order to realize the full potential of the Web economy, content services must be built on top of today's Internet IP backbone," said networking pioneer and consultant John McQuillan John McQuillan (born July 20 1970 in Stranraer) is a Scottish former professional footballer. He began his career with his hometown club Stranraer in 1986 and went on to play for Tayside rivals Dundee, St. , president of McQuillan Ventures. "Many vendors focus on accelerating content delivery through caching services or Web traffic management solutions. But the next big opportunity for service providers and their hosting clients is to achieve differentiation via smarter content services like content and application verification, e-transaction assurance, flash crowd insurance, personalization and content-based QoS." The only vendor shipping carrier-class products with full-featured URL and cookie switching, ArrowPoint has pioneered new technology for 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 Web server farms or cache clusters, maximizing server resources and optimizing performance of Web caches. ArrowPoint's CS-800 increases Web response time by intelligently examining content requests in detail and directing them to the best site and best server at that moment, avoiding busy or overloaded sites and dynamically replicating "hot" content for busy or overloaded networks, servers or applications. Only ArrowPoint's Web Switches provide policy-based prioritization for premium content requests or preferred users, and tailor quality of service accordingly. This capability not only enables application service providers like NaviSite to offer tiered services, but also ensures their ability to meet service level agreements. This is critical to carriers and service providers like NaviSite, which offers the most comprehensive and highest level contractual service level agreements in the market, including availability levels of 99.99 percent. "As the pioneer of content-aware Web switching Using a Web switch to route Web traffic to the server that can process it most efficiently. See Web switch. , we will continue to deliver breakthrough technologies that scale performance of today's over-taxed Web infrastructure," said Cheng Wu, ArrowPoint founder 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. . "But what distinguishes ArrowPoint solutions are the new content services they enable. Today, having a fast site isn't enough. Having a fast site that provides premium and personalized services for priority content and preferred customers will be the basis for Web commerce competition. Customers whose business depends on Web performance and services are choosing ArrowPoint, and we are very pleased to be able to say their loyalty runs deep." About ArrowPoint Communications ArrowPoint Communications has pioneered Web switching, the next generation networking Next Generation Networking (NGN) is a broad term to describe some key architectural evolutions in telecommunication core and access networks that will be deployed over the next 5-10 years. technology that optimizes Web response times and reliability for a consistently positive user experience. ArrowPoint's products are used in a broad range of applications, including electronic commerce, Web publishing, Web caching and value-added Web hosting services. The company is headquartered in Acton, Mass., with regional offices in Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore. For more information, call 978.206.3000 or visit the company Web site at www.arrowpoint.com. |
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