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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (1589)	11/10/1999 11:05:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

fair enough. a minor press release. ----- Network Appliance Announces Integration of Apple's Open Source QuickTime Streaming Solution Into NetCache November 9, 1999 04:02 PM LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1999--Network Appliance (NTAP) today announced plans to integrate Apple's industry-leading QuickTime streaming media solution into its NetCache(TM) appliance platform. By supporting the industry standard protocols used by the QuickTime streaming solution, NetCache appliances will allow ISPs, enterprises and leading Web sites to quickly and reliably scale their services to provide high-resolution streaming media and web services to Internet users worldwide. "QuickTime 4 has quickly established itself as a leading standards-based, high-quality streaming solution," said Amit Pandey, director of NetCache marketing at Network Appliance. "The NetCache appliance complements QuickTime's streaming power by immediately scaling to meet the performance, quality and availability needs of today's enterprises and leading ISPs." Each NetCache appliance will serve thousands of QuickTime streams. Stationed at the edge of networks, the NetCache appliances will offload hundreds of megabits a second of traffic from networks and origin servers. This brings content closer to the end-user while alleviating one server of all the streaming burden, ultimately resulting in higher quality video and audio for end-users. "QuickTime TV helps leading content providers bring high-quality streamed media to Internet users worldwide," said Frank Casanova, Apple's director of QuickTime Product Marketing. "Now, by combining the QuickTime open source solution with the NetCache appliance platform, businesses have another excellent option for serving thousands of simultaneous audio and video streams to a global audience."