NTAP--Network Appliance and Everypath Team Up
Offering Enhanced Content Delivery
Everypath to Utilize Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (iCAP) to Enhance Distribution of Content to Wireless and Interactive TV
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000-- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, and Everypath, Inc., today announced they will collaborate to deliver advanced services to wireless customers. This will enhance the delivery of interactive Internet, intranet, and extranet content to wireless devices and interactive TV. The new services will be developed via the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (iCAP), an open standards-based technology developed by Network Appliance and a consortium of Internet companies.
Network Appliance is coupling iCAP technology with its NetCache(TM) C1100 caching solutions, helping Everypath's customers receive their content when they need it, where they need it, quickly and reliably.
iCAP was founded as a standard protocol for PCs, personal digital assistants, pagers, phones, and other devices to receive data and run applications sent over the Internet. Because these devices have various display screens and network-connection speeds, content providers find it difficult to guarantee that information and applications will be accessible from a given type of device. iCAP has helped to provide a standard way for content to be formatted, cached, and displayed.
``The ability for companies to develop value-added services for any access device such as a PDA, smart phone, PC, or set top box is becoming a key differentiator in improving business performance and customer retention. Simply put, such value-added services is the next big component of the economy,'' said Amit Pandey, senior director of marketing, Content Delivery Business Unit at Network Appliance, Inc. ``Everypath demonstrates how a successful Internet content distribution corporation can improve and extend its applications to meet the increasing demands of its customers.''
``Everypath is pleased to collaborate with Network Appliance on a platform that offers our company a competitive edge by enhancing the Everypath customer experience,'' said David Chan, Vice President of Business Development at Everypath. ``Enabling Everypath to deliver content to an increasingly mobile customer base through an industry standard protocol enhances the services we provide without consuming additional R&D dollars, allowing us to stay focused on our core business.''
About iCAP
The iCAP Forum is hosted by Network Appliance and Akamai Technologies, and is joined by leading Internet companies including content delivery service providers, application developers, and Internet infrastructure companies. Forum members participating in the development of iCAP include: AdForce, Advertising.com, Allaire Corporation, Anystream, Appliant, Inc., BroadVision, Capella, Cidera, Cobalt Networks, Compaq, Direct Hit, DoubleClick, eBuilt, Ecliptic, eColor, Engage, Entera, Finjan Software, Fresher Information, Frictionless Commerce, Gomez, Google, Idiom, Idini, iKnowledge, InfoLibria, Ingeniux, iWeb.com, Izar, Kanda Software, Lionbridge Technologies, Mirror Image Internet, Navisite, Network Associates, Novell, N2H2, Oki, Open Market, Optibase, Oracle Corp., Pandesic, Predictive Networks, PictureWorks, RuleSpace, Secure Computing, SightPath, StarBurst Software, Symantec Corp., Trend Micro, Inc., Vignette Corporation, Websense, and WWWhoosh. Instructions on how to participate in development of the protocol are available on the ICAP web site at www.i-cap.org or by contacting partners@i-cap.org.
About Everypath
By making all types of communications possible in a wireless environment, Everypath connects businesses with their customers, partners, and employees any way they want. Everypath enables businesses to deliver complex, transactional, web content, database information, and enterprise applications anywhere, anytime, to anyone, in real time. The company's patent-pending, unique, ``Intelligent Rendering'' process customizes interaction through the complete array of wireless, broadband and voice devices - from PDAs to smart phones, from interactive TV to traditional telephones, as well as all the latest communication hardware - safely and securely. Honored as a Smithsonian Laureate, the company has been named one of Forbes' ``Best of the Web'' Top 25 Business-to-Business companies and one of CNET's top ``10 Wireless Companies to Watch.'' Everypath employs over 180 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Hyderabad, India; Munich, Germany; and London, UK. Privately held, Everypath has more than 50 customers and partners, including Alaska Airlines, Checkpoint, E*TRADE, Engage, Ericsson, Fidelity of Canada, GeoTouch, Hewlett-Packard, iPlanet, Liberate, Neomar, Network Appliance, Paytrust, PlanetRx, Salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems, Symbol Technologies, Tantau, UpShot.com, and Visto. For more information, contact Donna Candelori of Candelori Communications, Inc. at (408) 774-3414 or by e-mail at dcandelori@candelori.com. Or visit www.everypath.com
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S+P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp® solutions. NetApp Internet caching solutions (NetCache(TM) appliances) and file servers (filers) deliver fast, simple, reliable, and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX®, Windows NT®, and the World Wide Web.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance(TM) filers and NetCache appliances are based on the company's innovative data access software known as the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system and standards-compliant hardware.
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