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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (25)	11/19/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: rowrowrow	Read Replies (1) of 218

CFLO holding it's own in aftermarket! Island... last 126 24/32 bid 127 ask 129 1/2 Management team and board are an impressive list. The market for Internet accelerators is growing explosively. Accelerators are being deployed at many points throughout Enterprise and Service Provider networks in order to improve the Internet's Quality-of-Service (QoS). With a deployment model similar to routers, the market for Internet accelerators is expected to quickly surpass $1 billion. The Internet is inherently slow. In the U.S., the average Web page takes between 15 and 45 seconds to be delivered; in Europe and Asia the delays are twice as long. No amount of bandwidth can cure the latencies that cause Web pages to arrive slowly. Improving Quality-of-Service requires a new layer in the network dedicated to improving response time. Operating at a higher protocol level than the router, these Internet accelerators dramatically reduce the sources of the Internet's latency in order to deliver fast and consistent end-user response time for Internet content. Michael Malcolm founded CacheFlow in 1996 with the mission of delivering the world's highest-performance Internet accelerators. A renowned computer scientist and former founder of Network Appliance Inc., Malcolm assembled a world-class team of developers and guided them toward the development of the world's first Internet accelerator appliance. CacheOSTM is the patent-pending operating system common to CacheFlow's family of accelerators. Unlike simple "passive" caches offered by other vendors, CacheOS uses latency-reducing algorithms that speed the retrieval of content from the Internet and automatically keep content in the cache up to date. As a technical achievement, it is unparalleled: delivering performance ranges from 4 to 20 times greater than its nearest competitor. As a practical achievement, CacheFlow accelerators are simple: the devices, which install in minutes, use industry-standard components that have been chosen and assembled for very high reliability. In January 1998 CacheFlow shipped its first revenue unit. Adoption began with Internet service providers seeking competitive advantage through better Internet QoS. Within six months a global backbone provider began a five-continent deployment. The remainder of 1998 saw further penetration of service providers, while initial deployments were started by Fortune 500 enterprises viewing this QoS improvement as a necessity for their rapidly growing IP-based networks.

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