Digital Island Announces NextEdge Program To Improve Performance and Reduce Infrastructure Costs for ISPs.Business/High-Tech Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000 NextEdge Installs Free Servers at ISPs, Including America Online See AOL. , WebTV, 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 , JENS, GTS GTS abbr. gas turbine ship , Road Runner road runner: see cuckoo. Road Runner thrives on outwitting Wile E. Coyote. [Comics: “Beep Beep the Road Runner” in Horn, 105] See : Cunning Road Runner , Carrier1, Wavve, Esat-X Ireland and NorthPoint Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ISLD ISLD International Society for Lasers in Dentistry ISLD Island ECN, Inc. (stock symbol) ), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today NextEdge, a program enabling broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. and Internet Service Providers 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. (ISPs) to improve performance for their subscribers and achieve significant infrastructure cost savings. To help meet demand for faster and richer online experiences, Digital Island's NextEdge program deploys Footprint(TM) content distributors free of charge within participating service providers' networks. This allows broadband networks and ISPs to more effectively serve popular Web pages by caching content closer to subscribers. In addition, ISPs can benefit from significant cost savings due to reduced bandwidth usage. More than 130 leading service providers are currently participating in Digital Island's NextEdge program, including America Online, Inc., BroadbandNOW, Inc., Carrier1, Demon Internet Demon Internet Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. It was one of the earliest ISPs, one of the UKs first, especially targeting the "dialup" audience starting on 1 June 1992 from an idea posted on CIX by Cliff Stanford of Demon Systems Ltd. , Esat-X Ireland, GTS, JENS (Japan Telecom Group), NorthPoint Communications NorthPoint Communications (Former NASDAQ: NPNT) was a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier), focused on data transmission rather than voice. Its business plan involved leasing copper telephone lines from local phone companies, then selling them at wholesale prices to Group, Inc., NTT Communications Corp., Rhythms NetConnections Rhythms NetConnections Inc. (Former NASDAQ: RTHM) was in the business of providing broadband local-access communication services to large enterprises, telecommunications carriers and their internet service provider (ISP) affiliates and other ISPs. , Inc., Road Runner, sunrise communications AG, Wavve Telecommunications, Inc., and WebTV Networks, Inc. "The Digital Island NextEdge program is part of America Online's focus on making access to the Internet faster for AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and CompuServe 2000 members," said Joe Barrett Joe Barrett was a very successful Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland in the 1920s. Joe won six All-Ireland senior football finals medals with Kerry in 1924, 1926 and the 4-in-row teams of 1929 to 1932, when he was also captain. , vice president of Internet operations at America Online. "We look forward to deploying the same service internationally as we continue to build out our network to ensure the highest levels of performance for AOL and CompuServe 2000 members worldwide." "Digital Island's value proposition has always been to deliver the highest levels of service and support to our customers and partners," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and 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 Digital Island. "NextEdge is yet another proof point, giving service providers access to world-class technical and marketing expertise from Digital Island, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Inktomi." Benefits from the NextEdge program to service providers include: -- Improved end-user performance to the Web's most-visited sites by caching content closer to consumers. -- Significant bandwidth cost savings by off-loading traffic from the network to the servers. -- Free and easy installation of carrier-grade servers from Sun Microsystems that leverage Inktomi Traffic Server(R) technology. Sun installs the servers and Digital Island maintains and manages them. -- Interoperability with existing caching equipment and content distribution networks. NextEdge is the follow-on program to the alliance between Digital Island, Sun and Inktomi announced in December 1999 to deploy Sun servers equipped with Inktomi Traffic Server across Digital Island's Footprint content delivery network. The combination yields a powerful technology platform that optimizes Digital Island's Footprint content delivery services See CDN. for fast and media-rich e-Business. Digital Island's Footprint content delivery services are SunTone(TM) certified. "Digital Island's vision for a robust network that delivers the reliability and performance for global e-commerce is perfectly in line with Sun's mission to provide service providers all the tools and support to meet the growing and diverse demands of the Internet," said John McFarlane, president of Sun Microsystems' Network Service Provider Division. "Sun's carrier-grade Netra(TM) t1 and Sun Enterprise(TM) 420 servers running the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment are the standard-bearers that put the dot in dot-com." "The NextEdge program, combined with Inktomi's industry-leading Network Products technology, will deliver rich content and applications to the edge of the network," said Vince Vannelli, senior vice president and general manager of the Network Products Division at Inktomi. "Our long-standing relationships with Digital Island and Sun provide ISPs with new revenue-generating opportunities for the delivery and distribution of content." Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 24 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net. Important Notice Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. Footprint is a trademark of Digital Island, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Netra, Sun Enterprise, Solaris and SunTone are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. This release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the possibility that the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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