Year 2000 Wire/Internet Surviving Y2K In Asia, But Performance Slows As Users Log On After Midnight, According to Keynote's Y2K Internet Performance Watch.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 31, 1999 A Sigh of Relief From Internet Users As the Early Results of Keynote's Measurements Indicate No Obvious Y2K Problems on the Internet Note to press: Press and analysts researching or writing on the effects of Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 on the Internet over the Millennium turnover are invited to call Keynote's Millennium Internet Performance Hotline at 650/522-1234, and to contact Keynote for quantitative data and commentary. The Internet appears to be surviving the arrival of Y2K so far in Asia, but performance in some locations degraded after midnight as users apparently logged on to test Internet availability, according to the first Y2K Internet performance measurements obtained by Keynote (Nasdaq:KEYN), the Internet performance authority(TM). Keynote is measuring the performance and availability of the Internet in all global time zones as the year 2000 rolls in around the planet. The public is invited to view the results posted to Keynote's web site at www.keynote.com. Other than transitory spikes in download times immediately following local midnight, there have been no obvious Y2K related performance problems. Web sites in the first time zones to experience the Millennium turnover have so far jumped the hurdle and are delivering pages as usual, indicating that the Internet in those regions is functioning properly overall. New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Australia and Beijing experienced some performance degradation immediately following midnight as users apparently rushed online to check the Internet's continued operation. "Overall the Internet is absorbing any rush of traffic and is showing the resilience it was designed for," said Dan Todd, Director of Public Services at Keynote. "The momentary spikes in performance apparently due to increased traffic show how important the Internet has become in the lives of people around the world." The infrastructure of the Internet is one of the world's largest distributed computing systems. It comprises millions of routers, switches, DNS servers and other specialized computers that manage and carry Internet traffic between World Wide Web sites and user PCs. As the Millennium arrives in each time zone, the web sites and Internet infrastructure in that time zone may experience Y2K failures that could produce a cascading effect on Internet performance and availability. The selected web sites that Keynote is measuring for the Keynote Y2K Internet Performance Watch are physically located in all the major time zones across the world, from Tonga in the Pacific on the western side of the international date line to Hawaii on the eastern side. Keynote's measurement computers will indicate infrastructure malfunctions if web sites in an area become inaccessible. "The world has been anticipating this new year not only as the start of a new millennium, but also for its potential Y2K effect on the world's computer systems," said Umang Gupta, 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 Keynote. "Keynote is in the singular position of being able to measure the real effects of Y2K on the Internet. The results indicate that the Internet infrastructure has been built to operate reliably overall." The measured web sites include the following:
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Time Zone Location Web Site
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00:00 Tonga www.candw.to
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-01:00 Fiji www.fiji-online.com.fj
New Zealand www.govt.nz
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-02:00 Khabarovsk, Russia www.iks.ru
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-03:00 Sydney, Australia www.sydney.com.au
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-03:30 Adelaide, Australia www.adelaide.com.au
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-04:00 Brisbane, Australia www.brisbaneonthenet.com
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-05:00 Japan www.matsushita.co.jp
South Korea www.oracle.co.kr
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-06:00 Hong Kong www.china.com
Taiwan www.sina.com.tw
China www.peopledaily.com.cn
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-07:00 Thailand www.inet.co.th
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-08:00 Sri Lanka www.ccom.lk
Novosibirsk, Russia www.nsc.ru
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-08:30 India www.nic.in
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-09:00 Pakistan www.pak.gov.pk
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-10:00 Tbilisi, Georgia www.sanet.ge
Dubai, UAE www.emix.net
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-10:30 Iran www.iranet.net.ir
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-11:00 Moscow, Russia www.msu.ru
Kuwait www.kuwait.net
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-12:00 Kiev, Ukraine www.kiev.ua
Israel www.netvision.net.il
South Africa www.mweb.co.za
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-13:00 France www.francetelecom.fr
Vatican www.vatican.va
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-14:00 United Kingdom www.barclays.co.uk
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-15:00 Azores www.lajes.af.mil
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-16:00 Brazil www.embratel.net.br
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-17:00 Argentina www.telefonica.com.ar
Chile home.netup.cl
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-17:30 Newfoundland, Canada www.nfol.ca
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-18:00 Puerto Rico, U.S.A. www.coqui.net
Bermuda www.bsx.com
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-19:00 Washington, D.C. www.whitehouse.gov
Colombia www.presidencia.gov.co
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-20:00 Mexico City www.prodigy.net.mx
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-21:00 Mazatlan, Mexico www.mazatlan.com.mx
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-22:00 Silicon Valley, U.S.A. www.cisco.com
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-23:00 Alaska, U.S.A. www.state.ak.us
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-24:00 Hawaii, U.S.A. www.visit.hawaii.org
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Note to press: In addition to the Y2K Internet Performance results, Keynote is available as a resource to editors for immediate information on the performance and availability of any web site in the world, whether Millennium-related or otherwise. With Keynote's Instant Perspective(TM) service, we can instantly measure the performance and reliability of any web site in the world from any of our locations around the world to give you up-to-the-minute information for your stories and articles. How Keynote Measures the Y2K Internet Performance Keynote is using its Perspective service to measure the performance and availability of a major web site in each of the 24 global time zones from the company's global network of measurement computers in over 90 locations around the world. This provides an immediate perspective on the effect of Y2K based on over 200,000 measurements each day during the global Millennium change. Measurements of the selected web sites began the previous week to provide a benchmark comparison. Keynote Perspective profiles the complete user experience of executing interactive multi-page transactions and downloading content, including graphics and banner ads, from World Wide Web sites to multiple locations around the world. The service supports industry-standard HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. and secure 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. , the same protocols used by the Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) and Netscape (Nasdaq: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. ) web browsers. For the Keynote Y2K Internet Performance Hotline, Keynote is performing the measurements every 15 minutes around the clock from each of its automated measurement locations around the world which are connected to the Internet via T-1 communication lines. How Keynote Measures Quality of Service For Its Customers Keynote produces over 15 million discrete measurements of page downloads, transaction times and availability rates every day for more than 6,000 web sites whose quality of service Keynote measures for its customers. Performance results and availability rates for measured web sites, for a popular Site-of-the-Week and for the Keynote Business 40 Index are available on the Internet in real time to anyone with a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Keynote Perspective also provides daily quality-of-service summary reports by email as well as an alarm service that notifies subscribers by pager or email of outages or deterioration in quality of service. Keynote also offers a free one-week comparative web-site performance appraisal against the Site-of-the-Week and the Keynote Business 40 Index, with its Keynote Perspective service, to any company that develops or operates a business web site with a registered domain name and submits an application online at http://www.keynote.com/newsfpa.html. The Keynote Business 40 Index is an industry-standard metric and benchmark of the overall health and performance of the Internet that is published weekly in The Industry Standard and other leading business and trade publications. The Index comprises 40 important web sites in six categories of publishing, search engines and directories, business services, financial services, high technology and communications. The Index provides historical and real-time performance measurements for the web sites of 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), Charles Schwab (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SCH SCH School SCH Schedule SCH Search SCH Semester Credit Hours SCH Santander Central Hispano (bank in Spain) SCH Socket Head SCH Synchronization Channel SCH Succinylcholine SCH Space Center Houston ), CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. (Nasdaq:CNET), Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM ATHM Excite@Home (NASDAQ symbol) ATHM Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine ATHM American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA) ), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE:IBM), InfoSeek/Go (NYSE:GO), Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER mer Among the Cheremi and Udmurt peoples of Russia, a sacred grove where people of several villages gathered periodically to hold religious festivals and sacrifice animals to nature gods. ), Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) and 27 other companies. About Keynote Keynote is the largest provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services to companies that operate e-commerce web sites. The company markets Keynote Perspective(TM) and Keynote Lifeline(TM), global real-time services that measure, assure and improve the Quality of Service of e-commerce web sites around the world. The company captures over 15 million performance measurements daily using Keynote's global infrastructure of over 220 measurement computers connected to the major Internet backbones in over 90 statistically selected Internet access locations across 45 metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet performance and availability data are collected at Keynote's sophisticated operations center and are instantly available to customers through any web browser. Keynote customers include over 500 leading e-commerce web sites and hosting companies including AdForce (Nasdaq:ADFC ADFC Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad Club ADFC Australian Defence Force Cadets ADFC Altimetry Data Fusion Center ADFC Alcohol and Drug Free Community ADFC Advanced Digital Fire Control ), Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), CDNow (Nasdaq:CDNW), Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Dell Computer (Nasdaq:DELL), Digex (Nasdaq:DIGX), DoubleClick (Nasdaq:DCLK DCLK Doubleclick Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) DCLK Deputy Clerk DCLK Digital Clock DCLK Double Click ), Exodus Communications (Nasdaq:EXDS), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM (Network and System Management) Running and controlling the networks and computer systems in an enterprise. See network management. ), and SABRE Holdings (NYSE:TSG TSG The Smoking Gun (web site) TSG Technology Services Group (UK) TSG Technical Specification Group TSG Timing Signal Generator TSG Technical Support Group TSG Tumor Suppressor Gene TSG ThermoSalinoGraph ). For further information about Keynote, visit the Keynote web site at http://www.keynote.com or contact the company at Keynote Systems, Inc., 2855 Campus Drive, San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. 94403, telephone 650/522-1000, fax 650/522-1099, email info@keynote.com. Note to Editors: Keynote, Perspective, Lifeline, AccuStat, MyKeynote and The Internet Performance Authority are trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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