Another batch filled a low 3s,,,
It's about time this thing should go back up, huh?
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Monday November 22, 9:01 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ArrowPoint Web Switches Put Nettaxi.com in the Fast
Lane
Nettaxi.com, the Web's ninth most popular site according to 100hot at www.100hot.com,
front-ends 84 servers with seven ArrowPoint Web Switches speeding 7.8 terabytes of content to
users daily
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- Nettaxi.com (Nasdaq OTC BB: NTXY - news) is using
Content Smart(TM) Web Switches from ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. to intelligently scale its massive online community
of home pages, e-mail, domain hosting and e-commerce Web sites, directing 55 million hits a day across its Web servers.
ArrowPoint's Web Switches provide Nettaxi.com's business-to-business e-commerce customers and online community users
with speed, quality of service assurance and scalability on the back end. Nettaxi.com uses the Web Switches in place of a
traditional load balancing solution. The Web Switches bi-directionally manage 7.8 terabytes of Nettaxi.com and other content
daily to and from users, ensuring content requests are sent to the best site and server in real-time, optimizing content delivery
speed, and preventing high traffic volumes from overwhelming servers. This also ensures Nettaxi.com's business-to-business
customers won't lose valuable e-commerce deals because of downtime.
The Web's ninth most popular site, Nettaxi.com is using seven Content Smart CS-100 Web Switches to front-end three banks
of 12 Web servers each. The Web Switches intelligently manage Nettaxi.com's traffic based on dynamically generated universal
resource locator (URL) addresses. This enables Nettaxi.com to separate browser requests for Nettaxi.com content, premium
business-to-business e-commerce services and online community content by type across its three different server farms.
Segmenting its content enables Nettaxi.com to scale its site intelligently, adding servers only where needed, as well as delivering
larger volumes of content to users faster and more reliably than would be possible with traditional solutions.
``With ArrowPoint's ability to balance our traffic load based on URLs, we can segment content between our server farms
logically making Nettaxi.com a more distributed, modular environment,' said Brian Stroh, vice president of information services
for Nettaxi.com. ``ArrowPoint's Web switches allow us to provide a premium service to all of our users through a scalable,
robust, high-performance network.'
A bustling online community marketplace
In addition to Nettaxi.com's e-mail, domain and business-to-business e-commerce hosting applications, ArrowPoint's Web
switches manage the site's dynamic and scripted content, such as instant messaging, horoscopes, stock quotes, chat rooms, site
searches and MP3 download features. With two million unique visitors per month, Nettaxi.com has evolved into a premium
online community seamlessly integrating content and e-commerce services for its members, providing comprehensive
information about news, sports, entertainment, health, politics, finances, lifestyle, and other areas of interest to the rapidly
growing number of Internet users.
``Nettaxi.com is overcoming challenges many large-scale e-commerce and online communities face, such as high traffic
volumes, inadequate content load balancing, and error messages,' said ArrowPoint's CEO and founder Cheng Wu.
``ArrowPoint helps Nettaxi.com remain a massively popular yet scalable Web site with emerging content services. Intelligently
managing its intense traffic flows with ArrowPoint Web switches helps Nettaxi.com keep its competitive edge, by keeping
millions of users happy and coming back for more.'
About Nettaxi.com
Nettaxi.com, with headquarters in Campbell, Calif., is a developer of commerce-enabled and content-rich communities that
offer its citizens a place to build a ``home' on the Internet. Through its Website at www.nettaxi.com and its interactive
CD-ROM product ``Nettaxi.com: The Experience,' Nettaxi.com provides its ``citizen' members with a powerful meta-Web
search engine, access to news, entertainment, sports, financial and travel information and services such as free e-mail, personal
home pages, chat and messages.
In addition, Nettaxi.com now offers the Nettaxi Mall, with thousands of products to choose from to enhance its citizens' online
shopping experience. For more information, visit www.nettaxi.com.
About ArrowPoint Communications
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. The
company is headquartered in Westford, Mass., with regional offices in Alton, Hampshire, United Kingdom and Singapore. For
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