for those who may be interested, there's a lengthy article on cache appliances in data communications. NTAP is cited several times and the piece also includes a list of 'competing' vendors:
"At least 16 vendors are now offering Web caching products. Several sell them as part of their proxy servers: CSM-USA (Salt Lake City), Deerfield Communications Inc. (Gaylord, Mich.), Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.), Netscape Communications Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.), Novell Inc. (Orem, Utah), and Ositis (Pleasanton, Calif.). Others sell cache appliances: Cacheflow Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), Cobalt Networks Inc. (Mountain View), Entera Inc. (Pleasanton), Eolian Inc. (Fairfax, Va.), IBM, Infolibria Inc. (Waltham, Mass.), and Inktomi Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.). Network Appliance (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Packetstorm Technologies (Guelph, Ontario) sell both types."
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Data Communications
March 21, 1999, Issue: 2804
Section: Web Caches
Caches Keep Content Close at Hand -- Vendors Say Web Caches Can Cut The Waiting Time. But Get The Facts Before Getting In Line.
Marguerite Reardon
Sex sells, no matter the medium. Sex also slows, at least on the Web. Online presentations of the Starr report and the Victoria's Secret lingerie show offered plenty in the way of titillation-while proving that "World Wide Wait" is more than a poor play on words. But scandals and scanty clothing aren't alone to blame. Fact is, corporate users are just as likely as casual surfers to be stuck waiting for the information they want, whatever it is. And when business depends on the Internet there's more than bottlenecks to contend with. There's also the bandwidth-or more specifically, how to use it as efficiently as possible.
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