WOBURN, Mass., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Mirror Image Internet, Inc., now majority owned by The Scandinavia Company, Inc. (Amex: SCF), today made details of its extensive and evolving technology and joint distribution partnership with Novell, Inc. available on the Mirror Image Web site. A partnership brief, providing details about the extensive solutions partnership Mirror Image Internet has with Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), is available immediately at mirror-image.com
The Mirror Image-Novell Partnership Brief covers the company's recent developments with Novell, Inc., including exemplary caching performance results achieved at Novell's BrainShare '99 event; a joint product bundle agreement announced with Novell Inc. to bring comprehensive caching solutions to the German marketplace; and Novell becoming a charter member of the global "Mirror Image Ready" partnership program.
Mirror Image Internet's partnerships with Novell, Cisco, Network Appliance and other leading technology vendors is key to the company's overall strategic alliance strategy for offering comprehensive caching solutions to ISPs and Web-enabled enterprise customers worldwide. Mirror Image's solutions can exponentially enhance caching performance -- delivering on-demand Web content without the wait to subscribing ISPs and Web-enabled enterprises. The company plans to continue its partnership with Novell, supporting the recently announced Internet Caching System (ICS) with access to the Mirror Image Internet Central Cache Connection(TM), and through additional joint distribution agreements in Europe later this year.
Company Backgrounds
Mirror Image Internet is a broadband network and infrastructure company that owns the central caching space, enabling ISPs and enterprises to deliver significantly faster Web downloads to their Internet users. The company is the first mover in central caching and offers a patent-pending product, the Central Cache Connectiona. Mirror Image is well positioned to greatly benefit from the tremendous anticipated growth in broadband access and streaming media content.
Mirror Image Internet deploys a global network of large, scaleable central caches at key Internet exchange points that serve as distributed content servers to help speed Internet downloads and relieve bandwidth bottlenecks. By providing this open, easy-to-access solution, Mirror Image Internet can significantly improve the speed performance for ISPs' and enterprises' networks and the Internet experience for their end user. The company's revolutionary open caching solution requires no new hardware, installation or maintenance.
Mirror Image Internet's global network of central caches provides the platform to offer additional premium services to ISPs, enterprises, and content providers worldwide. It also allows the company to offer various solutions that enable high speed Internet traffic.
Based in Woburn, Massachusetts, Mirror Image Internet serves customers worldwide with European headquarters in London. Further information on Mirror Image can be found at mirror-image.com
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) is the leading provider of network software enabled by directory services. Novell Internet solutions make networks more manageable and secure and reduce the total cost of ownership for organisations of every kind and size. Novell's worldwide channel, developer, education and technical support programs are the most extensive in the network computing industry.
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