Alcatel and ArrowPoint Communications Announce OEM Agreement for Content Smart Web Switching Technology
PR Newswire, Wednesday, October 13, 1999 at 04:22
ArrowPoint's Web Switching Becomes Part of Alcatel's Internet Product
Portfolio For Web Hosting Companies, Service Providers, and E-Commerce Web
Sites
Alcatel at Telecom 99 -- Hall 4, Stand No. 210
GENEVA, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel, (NYSE:ALA) the world's leading
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) vendor*, and ArrowPoint
Communications, the pioneer of web switching solutions that optimize web
response time, today announced the companies have signed an OEM (original
equipment manufacturer) agreement for ArrowPoint's Content Smart(TM) web
Switches. These new products provide Alcatel with a strategic platform for
optimizing web response times and site reliability for business-critical
e-commerce and commercial web sites, delivering web content to users faster
and more reliably.
The agreement is another significant step in the overall value chain that
Alcatel is creating for service providers in relation to IP networking and
complements the recent acquisition of Assured Access Technologies, Internet
Devices, Packet Engines, and Xylan.
Alcatel will resell co-branded ArrowPoint CS-100 and CS-800 Content Smart
web switches which are available immediately through Alcatel's global sales
organization.
Designed specifically for how the web works, ArrowPoint's web switches
optimize web response times, web site reliability, and infrastructure
utilization, effectively eliminating bottlenecks at web servers and web caches
that frustrate users with long waits and errors. ArrowPoint's unique content
intelligence enables reliable and high performance web server traffic
management for a variety of break-through web services, including shared
business class web hosting, sophisticated e-commerce and streaming media
services, flash crowd insurance, and service-tailored content caching.
Welcoming the agreement, Martin de Prycker, President of Alcatel's carrier
data activities said: "Alcatel has removed the bandwidth bottleneck at the
customer premises with its range of ADSL modems and at the operator's Central
Office with its DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) products.
Alcatel can now enable service providers to offer guaranteed service levels to
content providers, enterprise e-commerce sites, and other Internet-driven
businesses, thanks to the functionality of ArrowPoint's innovative web
switching technology. In combination with the complete range of Alcatel
switching and routing products, Alcatel is the sole provider able to deliver
complete carrier class solutions for web hosting applications".
"This OEM agreement with an industry leader like Alcatel validates our web
switching concept and vision for the content smart Internet," said Cheng Wu,
ArrowPoint's founder, President and CEO. "Alcatel provides a powerful channel
for ArrowPoint's web switching technology, and we are poised to dominate the
market for products that optimize web response time and web site reliability.
No other solution offers the content intelligence and complete web focus of
our web switching products, and the Alcatel OEM agreement provides a
world-class partner that reaches the top e-commerce and web businesses."
Removing the Bottleneck
Through this agreement, Alcatel helps remove throughput bottlenecks at a
service provider's web hosting facility by allowing ArrowPoint's web switch to
control content access with advanced functions such as load balancing and
Smart Content Replication(TM).
Service providers can also enhance performance and utilization of their
caching resources through the web switches' ability to perform intelligent
cache bypass for non-cacheable content and to optimize content availability in
all major caching applications including transparent, proxy and reverse proxy
implementations. This optimizes service providers' internal bandwidth,
reducing the volume of traffic flowing from their ADSL equipment into the
transmission network and any consequent delay.
The ArrowPoint CS-100 and CS-800 Content Smart web switches provide a
front-end for web server farms or cache clusters, maximizing server resources
and optimizing performance of web caches. ArrowPoint's web switches
dynamically direct specific content requests to the best site and best server
at that moment, avoiding busy or overloaded sites. Because ArrowPoint's
products have the unique intelligence to differentiate content based on
universal resource locator (URL) and cookies, they are the only solution to
provide policy-based prioritization for premium content requests or preferred
users and tailor quality of service accordingly. This not only enables web
hosting companies to offer tiered services, but also ensures their ability to
meet service level agreements (SLAs).
*Research by Dittberner Associates, June 1999; Dataquest, July 1999; RHK,
Jan 1999.
About Alcatel
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end
voice and data solutions to established and new carriers, as well as
enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO
21.3 billion ($25.0 billion), Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For
more information, visit Alcatel on Internet: alcatel.com
About ArrowPoint
ArrowPoint Communications has pioneered web switching, the next generation
networking technology that optimizes web response times and reliability for a
consistently positive user experience. ArrowPoint's products are used in a
broad range of applications, including electronic commerce, Web publishing,
web caching, and value-added web hosting services. For more information, call
978.692.5875 or visit the company web site at www.arrowpoint.com.
ArrowPoint is gaining momentum as a recognized technology innovator,
winning a Hot Product award from Data Communications magazine in January of
1999. ArrowPoint's customers include the ACTV Network, Cube Technologies (web
host for eCal), Exodus, Frontier GlobalCenter web host for Mpath and Nettaxi),
MediaOne/Roadrunner, NaviSite (web host for "Ask AltaVista A Question",
ThingWorld.com and major e-commerce sites), and UUnet (web hoster for
ThriveOnline.com).
Contacts Alcatel
For full Alcatel Geneva Telecom press list, consult :
alcatel.com
Alcatel Telecom Geneva :
Press Office : Tel : +41 22 746 5507/08
Olivier Le Friec : Tel : +33 (0)6 08 40 94 43
Willem Zevenbergen : Tel : +33 (0)6 07 86 76 04
Alcatel Press office (Paris)
Tel : + 33 (0)1 40 76 12 98
Investor Relations
Claire Pedini Tel : +33 (0)1 40 76 13 93
Claire.pedini@alcatel.fr
Charlotte Laurent-Ottomane Tel : +33 (0)1 40 76 13 30
Charlotte.laurent-ottomane@alcatel.fr
Emmanuel Spite Tel : +33 (0)1 40 76 16 04
Emmanuel.spite@alcatel.fr
SOURCE Alcatel
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