Sandpiper Netwo.com Site; Footprint Service Ensures Consistent and Timely Delivery of Collegiate Sports News.WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999-- Sandpiper sandpiper, common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew. Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all Networks, Inc., a provider of adaptive content distribution services, today announced that the company's Footprint(SM) service will deliver web-based content for University Netcasting's FANSonly.com site. ents and the football bowl seasons. FANSrequiring the purchase of costly hardware and bandwidth, but chose Sandpiper's Footprint service instead. Footprint provides a flexible solution for additional capacity ois a need for additional capacity on an as-needecoach," said Spiegel. "Regardless of the traffir own local networks instead of waiting for content to traverse the Internet. Footprint gathers information on Internet performance from probes located in every major backbone to make sure users and content avoid network congestion In data networking and queueing theory, network congestion occurs when a link or node is carrying so much data that its quality of service deteriorates. Typical effects include queueing delay, packet loss or the blocking of new connections. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. David Woghan, chief operating offt our readers can access our site consistently Sandpiper is currently working with a variety ofprint is a turnkey solution that embodies the coailable on a subscription basis, Footprint's paders and ISPs including Uunet, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. , Sprint, provide consumer access, Footprint circumventsd San Francisco, University Netcasting Inc. is captured this market position by teaming with the most influential universities and athletic associations in the country to maintain and represent their official Interneiate news, sports entertainment and community fresented as an Official Athletic Site(TM) ("OAS OAS See: Option adjusted spread "clabruins.com) to its specific community. It is this model that the Company intends to leverage into related market and community segments. About Sandpiper Founded in 1996, Sandpiper Networks, Inc. is a provider of adaptive content distribution services to web publishers and cdpiper is privately funded by Brentwood Venture Capital, Media Technology Ventures and Mission Ventures. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.sandpiper.net. |
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