Ten & Intel Investors - Here is Intel's Press Release on their NetStructure Communications program .
"The seven products introduced today include a new Internet caching appliance for faster access to heavily-requested Web pages. Other products include e-Commerce load balancing equipment, designed to more evenly spread Internet traffic among available servers and improve server performance; security authentication ''accelerators'' that quicken vital online user identification checks; and high speed switches for rapid transmission of data. Intel will also target the growing variety of e-Business service providers or ''xSPs'' both as direct Intel customers and as resellers of Intel NetStructure brand name products. "
I think these products can be categorized as FUNCTION SPECIFIC - they are designed and built to do just one function - such as data caching or SSL decoding.
As such, they are NOT general purpose servers and - hopefully - will not compete with Intel's own customers, but rather expand the Internet economy with improved functionality and performance.
Paul
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biz.yahoo.com
Wednesday February 16, 12:04 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Intel Introduces Family of E-business Communications Products and Services
Seven Products Under New Brand Name Help Build, Rapidly Deploy e-Business Services
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2000-- Targeting businesses that are rapidly evolving into e-Businesses, Intel Corporation today unveiled a family of communications products and services that improve e-Commerce transactions through faster online connections, security authentication and server response time. At the Intel Developer Forum today, the company also announced it is creating the Intel® NetStructure(TM) brand name and launching a multi-million dollar marketing campaign to promote Intel's communication focus and products.
The products within the Intel NetStructure family target a new category of value-added infrastructure appliances and networking communications equipment for building or improving e-Businesses and helping them operate more efficiently. Focused on helping e-Businesses generate more revenue in less time, the products are designed to be easily deployed and complement companies' existing network and server environment improving server performance by as much as 150 times. The products also provide increased server responsiveness and reliability by acting as ''traffic cops'' that can both intelligently assign data and identify -- and avoid -- server errors and down time.
The seven products introduced today include a new Internet caching appliance for faster access to heavily-requested Web pages. Other products include e-Commerce load balancing equipment, designed to more evenly spread Internet traffic among available servers and improve server performance; security authentication ''accelerators'' that quicken vital online user identification checks; and high speed switches for rapid transmission of data. Intel will also target the growing variety of e-Business service providers or ''xSPs'' both as direct Intel customers and as resellers of Intel NetStructure brand name products.
''Intel is looking to easily and affordably strengthen customers' e-Business infrastructure by providing value-added solutions that are easy to deploy and enhance the e-Commerce experience,'' said John Miner, vice president and general manager of Intel's Communications Products Division. ''We will focus on delivering high-performance, best-in-class solutions and services to emerging e-Businesses.''
In April, the company also plans to begin offering its Intel® NetStructureSM Service Solutions, a comprehensive support center that will provide services and support for the entire Intel NetStructure product line. The services will be sold through Intel's sales channels and will include product installation and general hardware and software subscription support, parts repair and advanced part replacement.
Developed by Intel's Communications Products Group, the company has built upon its own leading e-Business experience, which currently averages more than $1 billion per month in online orders, as well as its unique expertise in servers, networking and communications to develop this new product family. Intel is also using Intel NetStructure products in its own e-Business environment.
''8 Second'' Marketing Campaign
To support the new brand name and communications focus, Intel is also launching a multi-million dollar advertising campaign that focuses on e-Business themes such as ''eight seconds.'' The concept reflects a recent Zona Research study(b) that indicates consumers will typically wait only eight seconds for a response before deserting a site or ending an online transaction, contributing to hundreds of millions of dollars lost in uncompleted online orders due to busy or down servers and e-Businesses. Businesses are increasingly concentrating on improving service and reducing customer frustration that can result from slow online response times.
The campaign will also focus on how industry standards-based, high-performance and adaptable e-Business infrastructure solutions from Intel provide a cost effective and easy way of building or enhancing e-Businesses.
Intel® Netstructure(TM) Family
The seven communications products that currently make up the Intel NetStructure family include:
-- Intel® NetStructure(tm) Cache 1500: Internet Caching Appliance,
designed with the Inktomi Traffic Server Engine(c) to enable
fast, easy-to-deploy and manageable caching solutions that can
significantly improve bandwidth utilization at lower costs than
traditional caching solutions.
-- Intel® NetStructure(tm) 7180 e-Commerce Director, the first
device of its kind that combines security acceleration and
application-aware traffic management to improve the speed of user
authentication (Secure Socket Layer - SSL) transactions by up to
150 times(a). It also helps to eliminate user-viewed errors, and
balance SSL traffic among servers based on specific URLs.
-- Intel® NetStructure(tm) 7110 e-Commerce Accelerator, which
boosts the speed of e-Commerce traffic by offloading the
processing power needed by the server for secure Internet
transactions. The accelerator can enhance server performance by
up to 50 times.(a)
-- Intel® NetStructure(tm) 7140 Traffic Director, an advanced
Layer traffic management solution 4 (layers define a method for
communication between devices, each focused on a set of special,
related functions). This "traffic cop" analyzes real-time server
responses to intelligently balance user load among companies'
existing servers. This improves site performance, responsiveness
and reliability.
-- Intel® NetStructure(tm) 7170 Traffic Director, an advanced
Layer 7, application-aware traffic management solution that helps
eliminate errors seen by e-Business site users. The product uses
actual response times to balance traffic load across the server
farm, improving site performance and reliability.
-- Intel® NetStructure(tm) 7190 Multi-Site Traffic Director, a
traffic management solution for e-Business service providers that
immediately directs customer traffic to highest-performing
e-Business infrastructure for optimal performance and
reliability.
-- Intel®NetStructure(tm) 6000 Series Switch, a high-performing,
modular gigabit Ethernet speed switch that helps to aggregate
networked workgroups and servers.
Intel NetStructure product pricing and worldwide availability worldwide is available at www.intel.com/network.
All Intel networking products are available worldwide through a network of distributors, Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and service providers. Additional product information is available at (800) 538-3373 for U.S. and Canadian customers; at (44) 1-793-431-155 for European customers; or at (503) 264-7354 for other international customers.
About Intel Developer Forum
The Intel Developer Forum is Intel's premier technical forum comprising nearly 150 sessions and hands-on labs and more than 100 demonstrations of cutting-edge products and technologies. IDF attracts over 2,000 hardware and software developers from around the world, of whom nearly 30 percent are focused on software. Now in its third year, the semi-annual conference provides hardware OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), IHVs (independent hardware vendors), and ISVs (independent software vendors) with in-depth information on Intel technologies and initiatives. More information on the Intel Developer Forum can be found at developer.intel.com. Updated information is available between Intel Developer Forums by subscribing to the Intel Developer Update Magazine at developer.intel.com.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
(a) Tested publicly at NetWorld and Interop 1999 show May 10-12. See also Networkshop(c) ''Scaling E-Commerce Applications'' report of 1999.
(b) Zona Research Inc., ''The Need For Speed,'' 1999.
(c)Third party marks and brands are property of their respective holders.
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