Coyote Point Systems Partners with CacheFlow Through Interoperability of ITM and Content Delivery Solutions.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Streaming Media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. East and Internet World Fall 2001 Booth 376 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2001 Coyote Point Systems, Inc., the price/performance leader in 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. Management, today announced a product interoperability and marketing agreement with CacheFlow(R) Inc, the leading provider of content-smart networking solutions, to accelerate content delivery and ensure 24x7 performance for high traffic web sites. The agreement, through which Coyote Point joins Cacheflow's Adaptive Content Exchange (ACE), certifies the interoperability of Equalizer, Coyote Point's intelligent 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 appliance, and cIQ(TM) Server Accelerator Series 700 and 7000 products , CacheFlow's content acceleration appliances optimized to scale web sites. Deployed together, Equalizer and cIQ Server Accelerators ensure the highest levels of performance, reliability and scalability for high traffic web sites. The ACE program represents CacheFlow's premier list of industry-leading partners that leverage cIQ technology to provide enhanced switching, content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. , security, multimedia services, and reporting for CacheFlow cIQ Content Delivery Solutions. "CacheFlow's acknowledged leadership in content-smart networking makes them an ideal partner for Coyote Point," said Thomas E. Wolf, Coyote Point's Director of Sales and Marketing. "A network deploying Equalizer in front of clustered Server Accelerators is combining the best technologies available to ensure Quality of Service, reliability and scalablity." "Intelligent load balancing maximizes the benefits of CacheFlow's server acceleration capabilities, said Frank Cabri, Director of Corporate Marketing for CacheFlow. "Coyote Point's Equalizer meshes extremely well with the Server Accelerator, and the combined solution offers an easy and cost-effective way to scale web sites." The Interoperable Products Coyote Point's Equalizer intelligently distributes requests among clustered servers using multiple criteria -- server response time, number of requests, measurements taken directly on the server via optional server agents, weighted assigned values, and geographical proximity (available via the Envoy add-on option). Active Content Verification ensures that servers failing to provide correct content for any request will be bypassed. Inclusive reporting features provide real-time graphical display of server and cluster performance. UDP-enabled, Equalizer works with DNS servers, serverless storage devices and WAP gateways. Two Equalizers working in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem are fully redundant, and failover can be easily configured from the browser. CacheFlow's 700 and 7000 Series Server Accelerators are expressly tuned for the workload of high-traffic Web sites. CacheFlow Server Accelerators can offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing. up to 95% of web content requests from existing server farms. This can reduce download times by as much as 80%. Additionally, the 700 and 7000 series products integrate Secure Sockets Layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption. (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. ) capabilities to offload CPU-intensive HTTPS (1) (HyperText Transport Protocol Secure) The protocol for accessing a secure Web server. Using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure port number rather than the default Web port number of 80. sessions, enabling the management of 10-40 times more secure sessions than a standard Web server.. CacheFlow representatives will join Coyote Point executives at Fall Internet World, Dec. 11-14 at the Javits 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 376, to answer questions and discuss the benefits of the joint solution. About Coyote Point Systems, Inc. Coyote Point Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of traffic management devices for enabling scalable, highly available server clusters. Recognized for intuitive configuration and low maintenance, price/performance and superior trending analysis, Coyote Point's Equalizer ensures fast connections and fail safe 24x7 access to web sites and other critical Internet and intranet applications. . Envoy, a software plug-in, enables Equalizer to direct online traffic across multiple server clusters located anywhere in the world. Headquartered 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. , CA, Coyote Point can be contacted directly at 1-650-969-6000 or on the web at http://www.coyotepoint.com |
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