Intel Investors - Intel will roll out "Quick Web Technology" on Monday - to speed Web page delivery via caching technologies.
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Web caching system to
launch
By Jeff Pelline
January 17, 1998, 12:00 a.m. PT
update Intel (INTC) will announce the launch
Monday of technology dubbed "Quick Web,"
which speeds the delivery of Web pages to
users' desktops.
As previously reported, the product has been
in trials with some Internet service providers
since November, and industry sources
predicted Monday's launch. Until tonight,
however, Intel would only confirm that it would
announce a "significant development"
involving Quick Web next week.
GlobalCenter, a digital distribution company,
will introduce the product Monday, followed
by Internet providers Netcom and Erols
Internet by February 1, marketing manager
for Quick Web Dave Preston said. Sprint has
been testing Quick Web as well but has not
firmed up a date for a product launch.
Quick Web--which now has its own icon,
"Quick Web Technology," akin to "Intel
Inside"--is another example of the explosion
of products that speed the delivery of Web
pages, a mounting problem with the use of
more complex graphics.
The technology follows Intel's purchase last
year of a stake in Inktomi, which has its own
caching product, dubbed "Traffic Server."
The two companies also struck a porting
agreement on Traffic Server. (Intel is an
investor in CNET: The Computer Network.)
The Web sites of Intel and the ISPs that are
supporting Quick Web already indicate that
Quick Web is close to being launched. "Once
the market trials and testing are complete,
GlobalCenter customers will be able to add
the Quick Web service to their Internet
account," reads GlobalCenter's Web site.
"The product will become widely available
later this year through participating Internet
service providers," according to a statement
on Intel's site. The "Intel Quick Web
Technology" icon also shows up on Intel's
and GlobalCenter's Web pages.
Quick Web is supposed to reduce download
wait time through caching technology. Users
don't have to add software or hardware; it
works with their Web browser, either
Netscape Communications' Navigator or
Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Another feature, dubbed a "Web-O-Meter,"
measures how much speed is gained when
you use it. Intel claims preliminary lab tests
show that "most users will see Web pages in
half the time."
Cisco Systems, Novell, Microsoft, and
Netscape, among others, all participate in
this market. |
