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Content Networking Technologies Play Key Role in Keeping Nation Informed and Connected in Time of Crisis.


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.  Fall 2001

LOS GATOS Los Gatos (lôs gä`tōs, lŏs, găt`əs), city (1990 pop. 27,357), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1887. It is an affluent residential community and health resort. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001

Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. , Inc. Event Offers Essential Information on

Content Networking -- Used to Keep Media Web Sites Up and Running

Last Month, and Essential to IT Recovery

CDN -- The Content Networking Event, the only one of its kind, scheduled for December December: see month.  4-6 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif., has not seen a down-turn in interest from industry innovators innovators

people who will try new things.


early innovators
important figures in the farming or client community because they are the leaders in the introduction of new techniques and management systems.
, leading engineers, scientists and business developers. That's because content networking technology -- at the heart of future e-business (Electronic-BUSINESS) Doing business online. The term is often used synonymously with e-commerce, but e-business is more of an umbrella term for having a presence on the Web.  -- plays a key role in managing information delivery when need is high. Over sixty conference sessions, led by 120+ speakers, and a full day of pre-conference marketplace panels and tutorials, aimed at helping businesses exploit content networking infrastructures in new ways for profit, are being announced by show producer Stardust star·dust  
n.
1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being.

2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use.

3.
.com, a subsidiary of Penton Media Inc. (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:PME PME Petites et Moyennes Entreprises
PME Professional Military Education
PME Pequenas e Médias Empresas (Portugal)
PME Petite et Moyenne Entreprise
PME Psychology of Mathematics Education
PME Pi Mu Epsilon
).

Interest in traveling to speak and join the debate on the growth of this important technology infrastructure continues unabated un·a·bat·ed  
adj.
Sustaining an original intensity or maintaining full force with no decrease: an unabated windstorm; a battle fought with unabated violence.
 despite recent national events and the general state of the economy. A list of speakers, moderators, and panelists from the business and technology community who will be challenging some fundamental issues such as privacy and the impact on technology and services growth, is attached.

The conference includes keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease.  presentations, conference sessions and workshops led by the innovators who have found the dollars in parlaying content networking infrastructure into business best practices, new edge services and technical solutions that offer paybacks, despite the economic climate.

A new level of intelligence in networks which provides customized, efficient handling and delivery of targeted or personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 content in a format appropriate for the destination device is continuing to drive interest in this conference. A focus on customized edge services, delivered to consumers over DSL DSL
 in full Digital Subscriber Line

Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary
, cable modem cable modem

Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet.
, and wireless last-mile networks, is a complement to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). CDNs emerged to prevent Web site access bottlenecks. Their current relevance to the country's information needs commands the attention of several sessions. Now, as CDN caches crop up in virtually every last-mile Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP)

Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password.
 (ISP (1) See in-system programmable.

(2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines.
) network, the customer profile and address information stored there can be leveraged in new ways, to be explored by the experts in the field who have committed to speak at the conference.

Stardust.com, the company that successfully launched the industry's first CDN conference earlier this year, is developing the program content. Stardust.com has helped lead the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 industry in interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other.  breakthroughs through its development of the QoS (Quality Of Service) A defined measure of performance in a data communications system. For example, to ensure that real time voice and video are delivered without annoying blips, a traffic contract is negotiated between the customer and network provider that  Forum, the Wireless Multimedia Forum and the IP Multicast A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for a myriad of purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network bandwidth, because packets are transmitted as one stream over the backbone and only  Initiative.

CDN Event Sponsors


Gold
Sponsors:  Media Sponsors:    Alliance Sponsors:  Information Partner:
---------  --------------     -----------------   -------------------
Volera     Stardust CDN Week  IP Multicast        HTRC Group, LLC
                               Initiative
Venation   Internet World     BCD Forum
Intel      Boardwatch         Kendra Initiative
           ISPWorld           QoS Forum


About Stardust.com

Stardust.com makes sense of new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2.  stuff for Internet networking professionals. Stardust.com is in the business of driving and fostering new Internet markets. The company does this by selectively creating content and context that defines and promotes the emerging value chain and by facilitating environments where techno-savvy people can successfully debate, plan, and ultimately do business. Stardust.com oversees multi-vendor alliances, produces specialized spe·cial·ize  
v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es

v.intr.
1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study.

2.
 technology conferences like CDN -- The Content Networking Event in December in San Jose, and provides comprehensive online technology and market-related resources -- all focused on emerging Internet technologies. Founded in 1995, Stardust.com is a Penton Media Inc. company (NYSE:PME) headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif. Please visit http://www.stardust.com.

NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS: To schedule interviews for further discussion on industry trends and interoperability challenges in the content networking space, please contact Jennifer Painter at Stardust.com: 408/402-0566, jenp@stardust.com.


Company                      Speaker

8e6 Technologies             Jared Thorkelson
Aberdeen Group               Michael Hoch
Abilizer Solutions           Glynn Evans
ABS Venture                  Jin Byun
Accellion                    S. Mohan
Accenture                    Mark Bronfman
Akamai Technologies          Paul Sagan
Allcast                      Mark Steatham
Allegro                      David Ginsburg
Antaeus Group                Peter Foreman
Anystream                    Jeff Allen
Apogee Networks              Andrew Burroughs
Asita Technologies           Angus Goldfinch
Atlas Venture                Chris Metcalfe
Bank of America Securities   Kevin Trosian
Bear Sterns                  Chris Kwak
Blue Falcon                  Jay Haynes
BlueArc                      David Morris
CacheFlow                    Gary Tomilinson
Cacheware                    Stephen McHenry
CAP Ventures                 Michael Maziarka
Carlysle Venture Partners    Anand Gawa
Cereva Networks              Brad Cain
ChainCast                    Joseph Rozenfeld
Cisco Internet Learning
 Solutions Group             Mike Mitchell
Cisco Systems                Seth Redmore
Cisco Systems                Mark Day
Cisco Systems                Bob Beliles
Cisco Systems                Jim Ricotta
Compaq                       Peter Cole
Consultant                   David Crenshaw
Corona Networks              Alex Henthorne-Iwane
Coyote Point Systems         Bill Kish
CyberStar                    David Puente
Digital Envoy                Sanjay Parekh
Digital Fountain             Cliff Meltzer
Digital Island               C.J. Stumph
Digital Island               Ruann Ernst
Digital Island               Joseph Hui
Digital Island               Kurt Merriweather
Digital Pipe                 Larry Deleski
Dobly Labs                   Andy Fisher
Ejasent, Inc.                Charu Jupta
Electronic Frontier
 Foundation                  Brad Templeton
EnjoyWeb                     Jian Lu
enScaler                     Deepak Srinivasan
ePrivacy Group               Jim Koenig
Equinix                      Jay Adelson
eTechnology Consulting       Eugene Finkelstein
Fineground Networks          Nat Kausik
Fireclick                    Ram Srinivasan
Frost and Sullivan           Jared Carleton
Gartner, Inc.                Lawrence Orans
Giga Information Group       Jonathan Penn
Greylock                     Ram Shanmugam
IBM                          Donald Ferguson
IBM                          Jay Holbrook
IBM Corp.                    Mark Andrews
Inktomi Corp.                Peter Galvin
Inktomi Corp.                Ed Haslam
Inktomi Corp.                Julie Campbell
Intel Corp.                  Christian Macciocco
Intel Corp.                  Michael Condry
Intel Corp.                  Rama Menon
Intel Corp.                  Jeff Noah
Intel Corp.                  Carl Ellison
Interwoven                   Karen Aumen
Ipedo Inc.                   Tim Mathews
Jon Peddie and Associates    Jon Peddie
Keynote Systems              Lloyd Taylor
Kontiki                      Mike Horner
Ligos                        Robert St. John
Lokomo Systems               Micah Beck
Lokomo Systems               Thomas Hogenes
Lokomo Systems               Patrik Johansson
Loudcloud                    Jef Kupietzky
Multicast Technologies       Marshall Eubanks
N2H2                         Cher Paige
Neomagic                     Mark Singer
NetReality                   David Bregman
Nets Edge Research Group     Peter Christy
Netscaler                    B.V. Jagadeesh
NetVmg                       Jeremey Johnson
Network Appliance            Lee Duggs
NewsTakes, Inc.              Dr. Gurminder Singh
Nortel Networks              Peter Cellarious
Nortel Networks              Phil Edholm
Opencola                     Corey Doctrow
OpenPages                    Michael Duffy
Openpages                    Michael Duffy
Pacific Crest Securities     Brent Bracelin
P-Cube, Inc.                 Muni Perzov
Peertopeercentral.com        Anne Zeigler
Perey Research & Consulting  Christine Perey
Pivia                        Neil Selvin
Probe Research               Liz McPhillips
Radiance Technologies        Ash Munshi
Radware                      Michael Rothchild
Reliacast                    Bill Thorton
RepliWeb                     William Orme
RouteScience                 Mike Lloyd
Sigma Design                 Ken Lowe
Simple Devices               Craig Janik
Sockeye                      Dan Golding
Speedera                     Rich Day
Speedera                     Ajit Gupta
Storigen                     Rick Gilette
Streamcenter                 Prat Moghe
Streamcheck                  Shai Berger
Sun Microsystems             Rob Glidden
Surgient Networks            Nagi Rao
Talarian Corp                Brian Whetton
The HTRC Group               Greg Howard
UCSB                         Kevin Almeroth
Valueclick                   Dave Yovanno
Vegas Commando Productions   Doug Mohney
Venation                     Paul Evans
VertigoX Media               David Wilkins
Vignette                     Leif Pedersen
Vividon                      Tom Pickney
Volera                       Hillarie Orman
Volera                       Baber Amin
WebSense                     Andrew Meyer
Widevine Technologies, Inc.  John Beyer
Xora                         Sanjay Shirole
YellowBrix                   Jace Weiser
Zach Systems                 Dave Weinstein
Zoran                        Michael Wood


Note: Speakers are subject to change. Current as of press time, Friday, October 19, 2001.
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