Caw Networks' WebAvalanche 3.1 Wins Best of Show At Internet World Fall 2001; HatTrick Rounds Out an Extraordinarily Successful Year for Start-Up.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Internet World Fall 2001 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2001 Caw Networks, the authority in L4-7 real-world capacity assessment for next-generation Internet infrastructure and equipment, today announced that WebAvalanche 3.1 has won the Internet World Fall 2001 Best of Show award in the Infrastructure category. WebAvalanche 3.1 was chosen as the winner for its realistic approach to measuring Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. . Internet World Fall 2001 is currently being held 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. and the event ends Friday, Dec. 14. Internet World Best of Show Awards are given out to products and services judged to be the most noteworthy of all of those represented at the show by an expert panel of Internet World magazine editors. "The Internet World Best of Show entries -- and particularly this year's winners -- truly demonstrate the way vendors are continuing to create solutions for tying companies with their partners, customers, employees, and databases," said John Zipperer, technology editor of Internet World magazine and head of the judging panel. "Winning the Best of Show for the Infrastructure category at Internet World Fall 2001 completes the hat trick hat trick n. Sports 1. Three goals scored by one player in one game, as in ice hockey. 2. Three wickets taken in cricket by a bowler in three consecutive balls. 3. of awards we have garnered in the last quarter of this year. This Best of Show win follows two other awards which Caw was honored to receive -- the Networld+Interop 2001 Best of Show in the Performance Test and Measurement Category, as well as Best Startup Product. These awards affirm the technical excellence of our product, and that we are the innovator and deliverer of best of breed capacity assessment solutions," commented Andrew Foss, 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 Caw Networks. About WebAvalanche WebAvalanche is designed for network equipment manufacturers, service providers and Web site managers that demand absolute realism and control under all conditions. WebAvalanche challenges any computing infrastructure's ability to stand up to the load and complexity of the real world. WebAvalanche can generate in excess of 20,000 HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. requests per second, supports both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 traffic, RTSP/RTP, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. and cookies. WebAvalanche is used by many leading corporations to ensure that their products and services excel in real-world conditions. Real-world conditions are accurately replicated by simulating error conditions, realistic user behavior, and maintaining over one million open connections from distinct IP addresses. Current customers include AT&T, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , eBay, Extreme Networks, Forbes.com, Foundry Networks, Network Appliance, Nortel Networks, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform DATA, and WatchGuard. About Caw Networks Caw Networks was founded in November 1999 to develop and deliver real-world capacity assessment products. Caw delivers customized architectures and interfaces optimized for addressing these challenges. Caw Networks' products are robust, customer-ready, highly scalable appliances that deliver unmatched performance and ease of deployment, use, maintenance, and administration. Caw Networks' investors include Spirent Communications, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Fund, Menlo Ventures, Cisco Systems and a notable group of angel investors, including founders of Sun Microsystems, Network Appliance and Network Translation, as well as former executives of Cisco Systems. The company is located in Mountain View, Calif. Note to Editors: WebAvalanche is a trademark of Caw Networks, Inc. |
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