CERN Deploys Cisco Cache Engine for High-Performance Bandwidth Management; Cisco's Web Caching Appliance Reduces Cost for Internet Access.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998--Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that CERN, one of the world's largest scientific research laboratories, selected Cisco's Cache Engine to provide accelerated access to the World Wide Web. The Cisco Cache Engine offers a transparent, reliable and scalable solution for CERN's network.

"Using the Cache Engine, we have benefited from an immediate and substantial reduction in the costs incurred while connecting to the Internet," said Olivier Martin, leader, External Networking Communications Section of CERN's IT Division. "We installed the Cache Engine quickly, easily and with no impact to our network. As the inventors of the World Wide Web, we understand the importance of this transparency to users."

"The Cisco Cache Engine, like all of our Internet appliances, is easy to install and deploy and requires no additional client configuration during operation, enabling seamless integration into the network," said Christine Hemrick, vice president and general manager of the Internet Appliances and Applications Business Unit at Cisco Systems. "Internet appliances like the Cache Engine will play an integral role in providing efficient and reliable bandwidth management to the growing wave of users connecting to the Internet."

By deploying the Cisco Cache Engine at a central location on its enterprise campus, CERN is able to significantly decrease its bandwidth wide area network (WAN) link requirements while maintaining a reliable and transparent connection to the Internet for its researchers. Consequently, overall usage costs, particularly those incurred while connecting to sites overseas, are reduced, making additional bandwidth available to enable more services on the existing WAN link.

Transparency, Reliability, Scalability and Ease of Use

The Cisco Cache Engine is the industry's first dedicated Internet appliance designed to scale the Internet infrastructure and eliminate repeated transmission of redundant Web content. The Cisco Cache Engine stores World Wide Web pages locally, enabling Internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprises to reduce WAN usage costs by decreasing the number of times they must utilize their WAN connections. At the same time, enterprise network users and ISP customers experience quicker response to Web content requests, allowing ISPs to differentiate their services.

The Cisco Cache Engine is a key member of the solutions Cisco offers for scaling the Internet, including high-speed scalable routing and switching technologies, and the Cisco LocalDirector and DistributedDirector for Internet server and content load balancing.

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