Network Appliance Selected to Sponsor High Performance NetCache-Based Mars Polar Lander Web Site.Business Editors/News & Technology Writers NetApp's NetCache Appliance to Handle Record Traffic Expected for Viewing 1999 Mars Exploration at http://www.marspolarlander.com Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP NTAP Network Appliance, Inc. (stock symbol) NTAP Never Take Another Puff NTAP National Track Analysis Program NTAP Notices to Airmen Publication NTAP Windows NT Application Processors NTAP Naval Training Acquisition Process ) and the Mars Volatile and Climate Surveyor (MVACS MVACS Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor MVACS Motor Vehicle Air Conditioning System ) team at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , today unveiled the official Mars Polar Lander The Mars Polar Lander was part of the NASA Mars Surveyor '98 program, which consisted of two spacecraft launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander). Mission Web site, at www.marspolarlander.com. Scheduled for simultaneous Internet viewing of the official NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. mission, the web site is expected to attract millions of viewers during the yearlong exploration of Mars The exploration of Mars has been an important part of the space exploration programs of the Soviet Union (later Russia), the United States, Europe, and Japan. Dozens of robotic spacecraft, including orbiters, landers, and rovers, have been launched toward Mars since the 1960s. . The www.marspolarlander.com site will use Network Appliance(tm) NetCache(tm) caching appliances to accelerate the performance of the Web site, significantly improving the response time experienced by visitors and speeding the access to critical mission information. NetCache was selected because it is the only Internet caching solution to deliver the degree of performance, deployability and scalability required to manage such a popular Web site and event. The NetCache appliance incorporates the patented ONTAP ONTAP Open Network Technology for Appliance Products (tm) micro-kernel, WAFL(tm) file system and caching application that are tuned for high-speed disk to network operations. In addition high availability features such as RAID and hardware redundancy make it an ideal platform for mission-critical environments. Building on the popularity of the Mars Pathfinder mission web site, the MVACS team developed the site anticipating tens of millions of hits on the web site at the launch, climbing to hundreds of millions of hits in the few hours after landing of the Polar Lander in December 1999. "Extrapolating from the traffic hitting the Mars Pathfinder site 18 months ago, we expect 250 million or more hits to our site in the few hours after landing when the Mars Polar Lander begins transmitting images back to earth," said Ian McEwen, ground systems architect at MVACS. "Deploying NetApp's NetCache appliances is the only way for us to scale our site as they offer high performance, reliability and ease of deployment." "Used as accelerators, web caches make a remarkable, cost-effective difference in web site performance. They're handling high-loads, and providing effective surge protection, while off-loading the origin server and keeping it in an effective operating range," said Peter Christy, principal at Collaborative Research of Los Altos, California Los Altos (IPA: [lɔs ɑltos]) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. (Collaborative follows the Caching market and runs the www.caching.com information resource site). "The ease of installation and operation, and high-performance design that characterize NetApp's NetCache make Network Appliance a leading competitor in this important emerging caching application." "Because our appliances are designed and built for the dedicated job of Web caching, NetApp offers the best performance and price-performance in the industry, especially for the top Web sites in the country," said Peter Danzig, chief architect of NetApp's NetCache. "Web browsers do not tolerate waiting for pages and NetCache appliances handle an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. more traffic than general purpose computers running traditional web server or caching software." About MVACS MVACS is the Mars Volatile and Climate Surveyor integrated instrument payload for NASA's Mars Polar Lander mission, which was launched on January 3, 1999. MVACS was built by a consortium led by the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. (UCLA) and is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. . The payload consists of four major instruments, which include a stereo imager, a robotic arm, a meteorology station and a thermal and evolved gas analyzer for Martian soil. These instruments will work together to study the distribution and behavior of water on Mars Psychedelic rock and electronic music group from Quebec City (Québec, Canada), Water on Mars (WOM) is the instrument of its leader Philippe Navarro, guitarist, vocalist, arranger, producer and principal author and composer of the trio. and study the Martian climate. MVACS will release its new images of the surface Mars and other science data directly to the World Wide Web at www.marspolarlander.com soon after landing, which is scheduled for December 3, 1999. About Network Appliance Network Appliance, a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions for over six years. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, Yahoo, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions. NetApp's Internet caching solutions (NetCache) and file servers ("filers") deliver fast, simple, reliable and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (tm), Windows(R) and the World Wide Web. The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance filers and NetCache appliances are based on the Company's innovative data access software known as Data ONTAP and standards-compliant hardware. More information is available at http://www.netapp.com. Note to Editors: Net App is a registered trademark and Network Appliance, NetCache, WAFL and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. 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