CacheFlow Unveils Turnkey Content Delivery System for the Enterprise; cIQ Starter Kit Enables Quick Deployment of a Private CDN for New Rich Media and Web-based Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2001

NetWorld+Interop -- Booth No. 765 -- CacheFlow(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:CFLO), the leading provider of content-smart networking solutions, today unveiled the cIQ(TM) Starter Kit, a complete content delivery system that enables enterprises to deploy web and high-quality streaming applications on their existing network infrastructure. The cIQ(TM) Starter Kit, available today, is ideally suited for enterprise organizations with four or more remote offices looking to better manage corporate content and deploy emerging multimedia applications across the corporation.

As enterprises continue to disseminate internal and external information to corporate and remote users, the amount of intranet content threatens to cripple the existing infrastructure and degrade end-user Quality of Experience (QoE). As a result, infrastructure limitations often present barriers to the deployment of applications such as e-learning and live executive webcasts. The cIQ Starter Kit allows enterprises to cost-effectively deploy these strategic applications and fully manage where, when and how multimedia and web content gets populated to the network edge, ensuring existing network services are unaffected. Enterprises can now easily and quickly deploy a turnkey, private "CDN-in-a-box" to improve employee communications, deliver confidential corporate content, and reduce travel time and costs associated with training. The private CDN will also enable enterprises to deliver the QoE that users expect when accessing intranet content and rich media applications.

"Our Enterprise customers are increasingly interested in leveraging rich content to improve corporate communication and reduce expenses. However, before exploiting rich media, organizations must ensure existing infrastructure is prepared for the increased demands of streaming media," said Peter Firstbrook, research analyst at META Group. "A centrally managed enterprise content delivery network will be a critical component to enable the efficient delivery of rich content that maximize the end-users' experience, without disrupting other mission critical network traffic."

Components of the Solution

The cIQ(TM) Starter Kit combines the essential components of a content delivery network (CDN), including content delivery, content distribution, content management, reporting, and intelligent content services allowing organizations to integrate third-party publishing and storage systems with the CDN infrastructure. The cIQ(TM) Starter Kit consists of:

-- CacheFlow cIQ Director

-- (2) 6000 Series cIQ Edge Accelerators

-- (4) 600 Series cIQ Edge Accelerators

-- (6) Streaming media licenses (either Real or Microsoft)

-- HTTP caching and content delivery

-- WebTrends Enterprise Suite (90 day trial)

cIQ Director manages and distributes all the content across the content delivery system and provides the flexibility to automate, schedule, prioritize, verify and delete content. The Content Accelerators -- distributed at strategic locations throughout the enterprise network -- intelligently store content locally and provide significant response time improvements, policy enforcement and bandwidth savings, allowing enterprises to manage the Quality of Experience for their end users.

"Building your own content delivery network is a significant task that requires extensive planning and collaborative work from diverse groups within the organization," said John Hoenemier, director of network engineering at LRN(R), The Legal Knowledge Company (TM). "Having an appliance-based package that allows you to quickly deploy an intelligent content delivery footprint, right out of the box, is the best way to get a strategic project such as multimedia streaming, eLearning or executive webcasts off the ground. And, with the CacheFlow cIQ(TM) solution, the enterprise can easily customize the CDN for their business simply by adding more appliances at edge locations, integrating the CDN with publishing and storage environments, and applying content filtering rules to users."

"The cIQ(TM) Starter Kit is the easiest way for enterprise organizations to rapidly deploy the content networking infrastructure needed for multimedia applications and dissemination of large documents," said Patrick Harr, vice president of worldwide marketing at CacheFlow. "The starter kit leverages what already works in your network, including publishing, storage and network management, and delivers a quick return on investment for managing the current content explosion and delivering new e-learning, training and web-enabled applications."

The cIQ(TM) Starter Kit is based upon the CacheFlow cIQ(TM) Architecture -- an architecture that combines the reliability and ease-of-use of content acceleration appliances with the extensibility of an open content management platform. At the core of the offering is cIQ(TM) Director which provides the facilities to manage content distribution, set user and group content policies, perform traditional device management for individual or groups of appliances, and report on network usage and access patterns. In addition, cIQ Director provides an easy integration point for extending a content delivery network to additional business information systems including storage, billing, and reporting.

Pricing and Availability

The new cIQ(TM) Starter Kit is available today through CacheFlow and its global network of channel partners. For pricing information, including details on a limited-time promotional offer, contact CacheFlow or any authorized partner.

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, Calif., CacheFlow can be contacted via telephone at 408/220-2200, fax at 408/220-2250 or email at [e-mail].

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 CacheFlow's business are set forth in CacheFlow's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2001, Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2000, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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