NEW PRESS RELEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! April 29, 1999 10:36
AGIS and Mirror Image Internet Join Forces to Deliver Total
Caching Solution to ISPs and Corporate Customers
BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1999--
Premium Caching Offering Brings AGIS Carrier and Corporate Customers Fastest Available Broadband
Internet Performance; Partnership Agreement with AGIS and Novell Expands Mirror Image Market Reach
Committed to delivering caching solutions that unleash the full potential of the broadband Internet, Mirror
Image Internet, Inc., majority owned by The Scandinavia Company, Inc., (AMEX:SCF) today announced a
partnership agreement with AGIS, one of the largest global facility-based Internet access and data
service providers. Under this agreement, AGIS will offer a bundled Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) and Mirror
Image total caching solution to ISPs and corporate subscribers nationwide as a premium service option
with AGIS' advanced data service offerings.
Through the partnership agreement, the AGIS direct sales force will sell the bundled Internet acceleration
solution as a premium offering for an additional monthly fee. The solution is based on locally installed
Novell BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3 servers accessing the Mirror Image global network of large,
scaleable central caches at key Internet exchange points, bringing Internet content closer to end users
and exponentially improving the performance of subscribers' networks.
"Mirror Image, Novell and AGIS create a winning combination for our joint customers in the Internet
industry - ISPs, carriers, and companies that require high performance Internet service at an affordable
cost," said Skip Seitz, executive vice president of Sales AGIS. "This agreement expands the market
opportunity for AGIS, Novell and Mirror Image Internet - and provides an ideal approach to caching that
supports 24x7 Internet user demands for international and domestic ISPs and Web-enabled corporate
networks."
"The Internet user's appetite for bandwidth is inherently insatiable," said David Wu, president of Mirror
Image Internet, Inc. "By joining forces with AGIS, Novell and other Mirror Image strategic partners, we're
able to deliver caching solutions that make the full broadband Internet possible."
"As content publishers, enterprises and ISPs implement increasingly complex and performance intensive
Web sites, the need for caching as core Internet infrastructure technology to enhance network
performance becomes critical for telecommunications companies and carrier class networks,"
commented Smita Deshpande, director of marketing, Novell Internet products. "With over five million
enterprise users already relying on Novell's Internet caching technology to enhance their Web
performance, we have clearly established ourselves as the leader in the caching market. Today's
announcement builds on our existing partnerships with AGIS and Mirror Image to provide complete
Internet services for customers of all sizes."
Premium Service Pricing and Availability
AGIS will begin offering the bundled Novell / Mirror Image Internet acceleration solution to their
nationwide customers immediately at an additional monthly charge above the current AGIS monthly
access fees. For more details about this premium service offering, contact AGIS at 1-800-380-AGIS or
email sales@agis.net.
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 revolutionary, patent-pending product, the
Central Cache Connection(tm). This open, easy-to-access 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, making the company well positioned to
greatly benefit from the tremendous anticipated growth in broadband access and streaming media
content.
Majority owned by The Scandinavia Company, Inc., (AMEX:SCF), Mirror Image Internet is based in
Woburn, Massachusetts and serves customers worldwide with European headquarters in London.
Further information on Mirror Image can be found at mirror-image.com.
AGIS is an advanced global multimedia and data communications company offering value added
products and services to hundreds of corporate clients and resellers worldwide. An early pioneer of
today's Internet, AGIS continues to lead the industry in the research and deployment of state-of-the-art
communications technologies. Additional information about AGIS is available at agis.net.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein, including the occurrence of
unanticipated events or circumstances relating to the fact that Mirror Image Internet, Inc. is in a highly
competitive industry subject to rapid technological, product and price changes. Other factors include the
possibility that demand for the Company's products may not occur or continue at sufficient levels,
changing global economic and competitive conditions, technological and other risks, costs and delays
associated with the start-up and operation of major capital projects and corporate restructurings,
changing governmental regulations and other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mirror Image Internet, Inc. undertakes
no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
AGIS and all of its products are registered trademarks of AGIS. Novell and BorderManager Enterprise
Edition 3 are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective holder.
CONTACT: Miller/Shandwick Technologies
For Mirror Image Internet
Kirstin Ratter
617-536-0470
kratter@miller.shandwick.com
or
AGIS
703-318-9158
PR@agis.net
or
Novell, Inc.
Gordon Evans
(408) 967-6371
gmevans@novell.com
or
The Scandinavia Company, Inc.
Alexander Vik
203-622-1606
amvik@vikbrothers.com |
