CASH INFUSION TO SPEED WEB.Byline: Ben Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer Internet data specialist 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 said Monday it received a second round of venture capital from a coalition of firms including America Online, Internet search engine developer Inktomi Corp. and Times Mirror Corp. The $21.5 million will be used to expand deployment of Sandpiper's Footprint service, which provides data mirroring to heavily visited Web sites. By co-locating information from popular Web sites at several servers around the globe, the system helps reduce the load on any single Web server and reduces the transmission time of data across the Internet. As part of the deal, Sandpiper will incorporate its mirroring services within the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. network, giving AOL users faster access to Web sites run by the 15 or so companies that contract with Sandpiper, including E! Online, WebRadio.com and University Netcasting. ``We're getting the content as close as possible to AOL subscribers,'' said Scott Yara, Sandpiper's vice president for marketing. Sandpiper will also be able to offer customers co-location space by piggybacking Gaining access to a restricted communications channel by using the session another user already established. Piggybacking can be defeated by logging out before leaving a workstation or terminal or by initiating a protected mode, such as via a screensaver, that requires re-authentication on AOL's several hundred servers, greatly expanding its own 32-server network. Yara declined to say what revenues the company expects from its expanded capacity. Another company, Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., recently began offering its own service to compete with Sandpiper's Footprint. Sandpiper was founded in 1996 by David Farber and Andrew Swart swart adj. Archaic Swarthy. [Middle English swarte, from Old English sweart.] Adj. 1. , software engineers who had worked for Interactive Systems, a Unix company. Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Spiegel, Sandpiper's president, previously founded LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Systems, which was eventually sold to the Intel Corp. and R.R. Donnelly & Sons. |
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