iBEAM Broadcasting Obliterates Web Wait With
Web Switching From Alteon WebSystems
Web Switching Technology Integrated to Scale Capacity and Ensure Non-Stop Delivery of
Streaming Multimedia Content
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteon WebSystems (Nasdaq: ATON - news) today announced that its Web
switching products have been selected by iBEAM Broadcasting(TM) Corporation to support its innovative Multimedia
Distribution Network.
The partnership between the companies and integration of Web switching technology into iBEAM's infrastructure satisfies an
increasing customer demand by content providers and Internet Service Providers for the delivery of higher quality online
multimedia services such as Webcasting and Multimedia On-Demand.
Unlike any other company to date, iBEAM(TM) has created the world's largest satellite-based narrowband and broadband
network infrastructure specifically optimized to deliver near DVD-quality audio and video content over the Internet.
Web Switch Integration
Alteon 180 Web switches are currently being integrated into iBEAM data centers around the world to provide high-speed
Gigabit switching, local and global server load balancing, dynamic application redirection and high-availability services.
Alteon 180 Web switches connect hundreds of content, database and application servers and Web cache appliances via
Gigabit connections. To ensure the highest possible levels of resilience within each data center, servers are connected to
redundant Alteon Web switches which actively monitor the health of each server and related applications.
To maximize user performance and ensure resilience between remote data centers, iBEAM is using Alteon's global server load
balancing technology. Global server load balancing enables user traffic to be automatically directed to the closest and best
performing server with available content at the time of each request.
In addition, global server load balancing allows transparent backup of entire sites and fault tolerance between data centers. In
the event of a catastrophe or downed site, user traffic is transparently redirected to another data center.
''When it comes to accessing and viewing streaming media on the Internet, speed is a key issue, and we're addressing this issue
head on,'' said Zsuzsi Bartfai, director of product architecture for iBEAM Broadcasting. ''Alteon's Gigabit Web switches not
only deliver the Web speed that's fundamental in delivering an online multimedia service but the intelligence to ensure near
non-stop delivery of that service.''
Bartfai noted that as iBEAM's service and infrastructure rapidly expands, the infrastructure must support thousands of
simultaneous streams of traffic. ''The number of requests that we can handle using Alteon's Web switches surpasses all other
technologies we've tested. Alteon's distributed processing architecture also enables us to scale to support the processing of
literally thousands of simultaneous Web sessions each second.''
iBEAM is currently capable of delivering more than 300,000 simultaneous unique streams of multimedia traffic across its
infrastructure and has established points of presence in more than 60 ISP facilities around the world.
About Alteon WebSystems
Founded in 1996 and based in San Jose, California, Alteon WebSystems is an Internet infrastructure company that delivers
Web speed for e-Business. Alteon pioneered the concept of Web switching and manufactures and markets an innovative set of
Web switches and server adapters that provide the ultimate in speed and traffic control for Web data center environments.
These products have been deployed in Internet data centers around the world by premiere online destinations, Web hosters,
ISPs and portals such as Yahoo!, DLJdirect, Excite@Home, Buy.com, Concentric Network, DIGEX, WebTV, Frontier
Global Center and many others.
About iBEAM Broadcasting Corporation
iBEAM Broadcasting, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., has created a distributed network infrastructure to deliver
CD-quality audio and broadcast quality video on the Internet. The iBEAM architecture has the scalability required to support
mass audiences, as well as the economic advantages of point-to-multipoint broadcasting. Founded by data communications,
television and telecommunications professionals in 1998, iBEAM Broadcasting Corporation's mission is to provide a key
infrastructure component in a new era in rich multimedia Internet applications for the mass market. IBEAM Broadcasting
Corporation offers a significant advantage in both price and performance compared to existing Internet delivery solutions. For
more information about iBEAM Broadcasting Corporation's Webcast Distribution services, visit ibeam.com, or
contact the company at 645 Almanor Avenue, Suite 100, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, telephone 408-523-1600.
This press release includes forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not
limited to, risks related to market acceptance of our products and product enhancements, changes in the fundamental
technology underlying computer networking, the interoperability of our products with our customers' networks or with the
products of other vendors, the release of competitive products and other actions by competitors, reliance on single source
suppliers and a single independent manufacturer to make our products, reliance on a limited number of customers for a majority
of revenue, ability to manage growth, need to maintain and expand our sales channels and our relationships with key
participants in the Internet marketplace, economic downturns in either domestic or foreign markets, activities by Alteon and
others regarding protection of proprietary information and Year 2000 problems. These forward-looking statements are
generally identified by words such as ''expect,'' ''anticipate,'' ''intend,'' ''believe,'' ''hope,'' ''assume,'' ''estimate'' and other
similar words and expressions. Please see the risks set forth in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (file no. 333-82605).
SOURCE: Alteon WebSystems
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