CacheFlow Delivers cIQ Content-Smart Delivery Architecture.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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. 2001 CONFERENCE Booth No. 133 SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 New Architecture Enables Enterprises and Managed Service Providers to Deliver New Rich Media Applications and Revenue-Generating Services CacheFlow(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:CFLO CFLO Central Florida Lyric Opera ), the leading provider of content-smart networking solutions, today unveiled the cIQ(TM) Content Delivery Architecture, the industry's first complete content delivery architecture that combines software extensibility and innovation with the proven performance and manageability of appliances. By deploying this new flexible architecture, enterprises and managed service providers can realize new revenue opportunities, improve internal and external communications, drive competitive differentiation and maximize customer satisfaction. Businesses can also now enhance their existing infrastructures to support the unique demands of streaming, web and dynamic application content and deliver next generation enterprise services such as executive streaming broadcasts, e-learning and training, intranet and application content delivery and secure business-to-business content exchange. "Next generation rich content for activities such as e-learning, training, corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. , and knowledge management will require companies to re-think their WAN and 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. network architecture. Our research indicates that less than ten percent of enterprises are prepared for the network impact of rich media," said Peter Firstbrook Peter Firstbrook (born May 11, 1933) was a Canadian figure skater who competed in mens singles. He won the gold medal at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships three times and competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics, finishing fifth. , research analyst at Meta Group. "Deploying a centrally managed content delivery network will enable corporations and managed service providers to efficiently deliver rich content and maximize the end-users' quality of experience." The cIQ Content Delivery Architecture combines the essential components of a content delivery network (CDN), including content delivery, content distribution management, content routing and content tracking, with the patent-pending algorithms and extensible protocols of cIQ to enable networks to intelligently communicate between devices, adapt to usage patterns and personalize content. Using the new extensible protocols and toolkits, customers and partners can integrate storage systems, publishing environments, billing and reporting systems and network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and tracking systems. In addition, customers can program their own business content and user policies, including content customization, transformation and filtering policies into a cIQ-powered network to drive competitive differentiation and advanced value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. offerings. "cIQ Content Delivery Architecture is an industry-first that delivers the best of both the software and appliance worlds for intelligent content delivery," said Brian NeSmith Brian NeSmith is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. NeSmith graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, holding a Bachelors Degree in electrical engineering. , president 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. of CacheFlow. "No longer do customers have to compromise performance and manageability to deploy differentiated applications and services." In related cIQ product and partner announcements, CacheFlow today also announced the availability of cIQ Director for open content management and distribution, cIQ Streaming Services support for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media Technology(TM), Apple QuickTime(TM) and MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 4, and cIQ Content Synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. Module for EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. CLARiioN(R) networked storage devices. In addition, CacheFlow announced new and expanded partnerships with leading content vendors, including EMC, Foundry Networks Foundry Networks is a network system vendor selling high-end managed ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. , Portal, Marimba marimba: see xylophone. marimba Xylophone with resonators under each bar. The original African instrument uses tuned calabash resonators. In Mexico and Central America, where it was brought by African slaves, the wooden bars may be affixed to a , Virage, Extreme Networks, WebTrends, Symantec, Radware and other CacheFlow Adaptive Content Exchange (ACE) partners. CacheFlow cIQ Content Delivery Architecture Components -- cIQ Director - enables customers to extend and manage their content network from back-end operations -- including modules for storage, publishing, network management and billing and reporting -- to the users at the edge. CacheFlow's new second-generation, open content management platform, cIQ Director provides a single, extensible point of control for a content delivery network. The simple-to-manage appliance offers complete, policy-based control over distribution of static, streaming, and secure content, enhancing the power of intranets and communication networks. -- cIQ Storage Synchronization Module for EMC - integrates cIQ-powered networks with EMC CLARiiON networked storage devices to guarantee web and multimedia content updates are automatically synchronized across a content delivery network. -- cIQ Streaming Services - enhance existing network infrastructure for delivering high quality streaming media, including support for Real, Microsoft Media and Apple QuickTime and MPEG 4. Integration with cIQ Director provides the capability to distribute and manage streaming content. -- cIQ Edge Accelerators - ensure fast, reliable content delivery with CacheFlow's optimized appliances for accelerating content to end users, efficiently utilizing WAN resources, improving employee productivity and delivering mission-critical content. -- cIQ Server Accelerators - offload Web servers from content delivery and security tasks to enhance web site performance and scalability by up to 10 times. Visit CacheFlow's cIQ Worldwide Web Launch For more information on content-smart networking and cIQ, visit CacheFlow's worldwide webcast featuring Brian NeSmith, Foundry Networks, and Jupiter Research. The on-demand streaming event can be seen at www.cacheflow.com/cdn/webcast. Sign up for Free Enterprise Streaming Seminar Visit www.streamingseminar.com and register to attend a free "Enterprise Streaming Solutions Seminar" offered by CacheFlow and industry-leading partners EMC, Foundry Networks and Virage in a city near you. About CacheFlow Inc. CacheFlow is focused on content-smart networking -- a new layer of infrastructure for intelligently accelerating, delivering, and managing static, streaming, and dynamic content. CacheFlow's market-leading appliances and innovative content delivery technologies enable enterprises, service providers and content delivery network providers to deliver the right content to the right place at the right time. Based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , CacheFlow can be contacted via telephone at 408/220-2200, fax at 408/220-2250 or email at info@cacheflow.com. Forward-Looking Statements The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding CacheFlow's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to CacheFlow as of the date hereof, and CacheFlow assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc CacheFlow's business are set forth in CacheFlow's Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended October 31, 2000, Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended April 30, 2000, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: CacheFlow is a registered trademark of CacheFlow Inc. in the U.S. and worldwide. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Please see CacheFlow at Content Delivery Networks (CDN) 2001 conference, February 21-23 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , booth no. 133. cIQ Supporting Partner Quotes: EMC "Customers have been asking us to marry the 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 high performance features of CLARiiON with CacheFlow's smart content distribution capabilities to give them robust information storage and access all the way out to the edge of the network," said Joel Schwartz, EMC's senior vice president and general manager of Midrange Systems. "With today's announcement we're delivering just what the market is seeking." Extreme Networks "CacheFlow's cIQ architecture delivers a comprehensive approach to accelerated content delivery that meets the goal of ultra-fast, truly localized IP networks," said Sam Halabi, vice president of IP Carrier Marketing and Business Development for Extreme Networks. "Our broadband Ethernet switching solutions, as a part of CacheFlow's CDN architecture, propel streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. and bandwidth hungry applications for improved performance at the edge of the network." Foundry Networks "Foundry has been working with CacheFlow for more than two years to optimize and evolve the Internet for media-rich content delivery and the result is reflected in the cIQ architecture," said Bobby Johnson
Bobby Johnson (b. Columbia, South Carolina) is the head football coach at Vanderbilt University. He became the Commodores' coach in December 2001 after leading Furman University to the Division I-AA national championship game. , president and CEO of Foundry Networks. "Foundry's ServerIron(TM) intelligent content switches, together with wire-speed Layer 2/3 switching and routing products, make the network not only faster, but also smarter for content delivery." Marimba "Customers are demanding solutions that integrate application management and content distribution with advanced caching technology," said Kia Behnia, vice president of Product Marketing for Marimba. "Together, CacheFlow and Marimba give customers a decided advantage, allowing business applications and content to be rapidly deployed across extranets, intranets, and the Internet. We look forward to building on an already successful partnership." Portal "CacheFlow has teamed with Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. to offer a comprehensive content-smart delivery and billing solution for content delivery networks," said John Janetos, director of Strategic Alliances at Portal Software. "Content delivery networks need a robust integrated infrastructure that will support the business models of today and be agile enough to support the increasingly complex business models of tomorrow including usage based, time based and quality of service pricing models. The combination of Portal's Infranet(R), an industry leading customer care and billing platform and CacheFlow's cIQ provides the key capabilities such as flexible pricing models and remittances that ensure content delivery networks can differentiate their offerings and increase revenue generating opportunities from the network." Radware "Radware is proud to be a part of the cIQ Content Delivery Solution. This is definitely the next step in Content Distribution Networks", says Andrew Grant, director of CSD CSD Commission on Sustainable Development CSD Serbian Dinar (ISO currency code) CSD Christopher Street Day CSD Circuit Switched Data (Sprint) CSD Computer Science Department CSD Community School District Products. "Radware's suite of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM ITM See: In-the-money ) products optimize the end user experience by eliminating network uncertainty and downtime. Radware is partnering with CacheFlow to offer an unparalleled quality of service, Web acceleration, and bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. solution." Virage "The CacheFlow cIQ content delivery architecture is an excellent complement to the Virage Video Application Platform," said Carlos Montalvo, chief marketing officer for Virage, Inc. "As an increasing number of enterprises turn to Virage to integrate streaming media into mission critical applications, they need the network performance and flexibility that cIQ provides. Furthermore, the cIQ architecture allows their content delivery network infrastructure to scale with the use of their video publishing and syndication solutions." WebTrends "Content delivery and acceleration have become key technologies for eBusinesses to deliver a richer web visitor experience, and CacheFlow's new cIQ Content Delivery Architecture is an important component in making this requirement a reality," said Coleen Carey, director of Product Marketing at WebTrends. "WebTrends' support of cIQ provides detailed visitor and usage analysis, giving companies the insight they need to ensure optimum performance levels and tailor content to their web visitors' preference. The combination provides a more personal web experience and helps eBusinesses convert more visitors to customers." |
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