China's Largest CDN Provider ChinaCache Chooses Array Networks Over F5 Networks and CacheFlow.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers More than 50 Array 1000 Web Traffic Managers to Help ChinaCache Serve 95 Percent of China's Growing Population of Internet Users; Single Array 1000 Handles More than 320 Million Requests Within Five Days During the Soccer World Cup Array Networks announced that ChinaCache has selected the Array 1000 Web Traffic Manager as a core component of its Content Distribution Network (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. ) for China. ChinaCache chose the integrated Array platform over traditional traffic management systems from F5 Networks and CacheFlow because the Array system demonstrated significantly higher performance and top return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ). A single Array 1000 TX-i handled 25,000-30,000 connections per second during soccer's recent World Cup, providing seamless Internet access See how to access the Internet. to China's Internet users seeking the latest World Cup news. ChinaCache is operated by Blue-IT, the holder of the ChinaCache CDN operating license issued by China's Ministry of Information Industry. The company was established in 1998 and operates the ChinaCache CDN service nationwide. The company has established more than 20 ChinaCache CDN nodes serving more than 95 percent of China's estimated 30 million Internet users, with a number of major clients, including Sina, Sohu, Tom, 21cn, Audi, Ogilvy, Maxwell House Maxwell House is a brand of coffee manufactured by a like-named division of Kraft Foods. It is named in honor of the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. For many years until the late 1980s it was the largest-selling coffee in the U.S. and is currently (ca. , Motorola, Nokia and Coca-Cola. "The Array 1000's tightly coupled See tight coupling. integration of in-memory caching, server load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , SSL acceleration SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains one or more co-processors able to , content rewrite, and global server load balancing  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . with its unique SpeedStack network processing technology delivers performance that is up to three times greater than competing systems," said Wang Song, 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. and President of ChinaCache. "The Array's integrated functionality and exceptional performance helps to ensure that the ChinaCache CDN accelerates response time and provides exceptional quality of service to China's Internet population which has grown 50 percent since last year. One Array 1000 TX-i for example, handled more than 320 million requests within five days during the Soccer World Cup." "We are extremely pleased that ChinaCache has chosen the Array 1000," said Donald J. Massaro, President and CEO of Array Networks. "ChinaCache is one of many customers that understand the value of Array's SpeedStack technology over competing point solutions or attempted integrated appliances from F5 or CacheFlow. The company joins more than 170 Array customers and partners that are harnessing the performance and technology advantages of the integrated Array system." China relies on the ChinaCache CDN for the rapid delivery of Web content. The ChinaCache CDN employs a Global Access Controller (GAC GAC Great American Country GAC Global Assembly Cache (Microsoft .NET) GAC Global Assembly Cache GAC Granular Activated Carbon GAC Gustavus Adolphus College (St. ), ChinaCache Nodes (CCNs), and a Network Operations Center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. . When a user visits a Web site accelerated by the ChinaCache CDN, the user's request is assigned to the CCN CCN Cloud Condensation Nuclei CCN Church Communication Network CCN Conseil Canadien des Normes (Standards Council of Canada) CCN Critical Care Nurse CCN Certified Clinical Nutritionist CCN Community Care Network CCN Cyclin offering the fastest response time. A Node Information Switch (NIS Niš or Nish (both: nēsh), city (1991 pop. 175,391), SE Serbia, on the Nišava River. An important railway and industrial center, it has industries that manufacture textiles, electronics, spirits, and locomotives. ) handles load balancing for each ChinaCache server in a CCN, and sends the information to the GAC for global load balancing across the entire system. Array 1000 Web Traffic Managers provides the global and local load balancing for the nationwide network. The Array 1000's content rewrite capability automatically transforms Web site urls to the CDN's access urls. The Array's unique SpeedCache(TM) in-memory caching ensures that a participating Web site's primary content is instantly available for fast access. Gartner forecasts that China's Internet usage will reach 94 million subscribers by 2006, with sustained annual growth estimated at 24 percent. "China has certainly experienced a rapid build-up, with the quality of services improving dramatically in just two to three years," said Andrew Chetham, Senior Analyst, Asia Pacific for Gartner. "Not having to deal with legacy networks and technologies has helped China move quickly as it can deploy new infrastructure straight into green-field locations, without consideration for the cost of writing off older and less efficient equipment." About the Array Web Traffic Manager The Array Web Traffic Manager integrates seven essential networking features into a powerful, integrated platform, including Layer 4-7 server load balancing, high-performance caching, SSL acceleration, content rewrite for transparent interaction with content delivery networks (CDNs), Webwall security, global server load balancing, and N+1 clustering. The Array's embedded SpeedStack(TM) network processing technology delivers performance that surpasses conventional load balancers, content switches, caches, and 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. accelerators. Pay-as-you-grow feature control allows customers to enable additional features on the fly via a software license key. The Array 1000 TX delivers up to 80,000 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. 1.1 requests per second in a typical dual-system cluster and can be scaled up to 32 systems. The high-end Array 1000 TX-i can maintain 1,000,000 active connections with sustained packet flow of 750 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. . Using Array's ultra-fast Scalable Permission Control(TM) rules engine, the Array's Webwall security framework can protect up to 1,000 backend servers and support thousands of access control lists while never consuming more than one percent of the Array's network processing capacity. "The Array's tightly coupled integration and state-of-the-art capabilities deliver performance that far surpasses conventional load balancers and caches," said Lawrence Lu, Array Networks' Chief Technology Officer. "ChinaCache's CDN environment takes full advantage of the Array's performance superiority over standalone products. For example the Array's full support for HTTP 1.1 provides ChinaCache with a distinct advantage over CacheFlow caching systems." Array Networks also announced the opening of a new sales office in Beijing, China and the appointment of Jeffrey Jia as the sales manager for the region. About Array Networks Array Networks, developer of the industry's first fully integrated Web traffic management and security platforms, offers "Power tools for the Web" that dramatically reduce the complexity and risk of secure Web traffic management. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., with sales offices in Germany, Great Britain, France, Japan, and the U.S., Array Networks engineers and manufactures its Array products in the Silicon Valley and sells through direct and value-added channels. Array Networks has raised $31.1 million in first-round funding, co-led by H&Q Asia Pacific and U.S. Venture Partners. Comdisco Ventures and individual investors also participated in the round. For more information, visit www.arraynetworks.net or call 408/874-2420. Note to Editors: Array Networks is a registered trademark, and Scalable Permission Control, SpeedCache and SpeedStack are trademarks of Array Networks. |
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