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To: Nine_USA who wrote (26725)	5/5/2000 3:22:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

"As traffic on the World Wide Web explodes and electronic commerce at companies such as Amazon.com Inc. surges, the need for smooth delivery of Web pages to users grows as well. ArrowPoint's three products, known as content switches, do just that -- efficiently bringing Web data to users by means of advanced software. ``The idea is to take all this traffic and be able to balance this data load across multiple (computer) servers" Is buying ArrowPoint, Cisco's attempt to get into storage without using Fibre Channel? I sounds like the battle lines are being drawn, with SUN and EMC on one side and CISCO on the other. Joe P.S. It is interesting that Lucent is getting into Fibre Channel, but not Cisco. Maybe I will sell the rest of my Cisco.

To: Nine_USA who wrote (26725)	5/6/2000 9:09:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

A few links on Arrowpoint. Their stuff goes here... switches provide a front-end for Web server farms or cache clusters, maximizing server resources and optimizing the performance of Web caches. Looks like they are big on cache and have done so for some of the data centers. ArrowPoint and Exodus give SharperImage.com the competitive edge..... ArrowPoint's Web switches front-end Exodus' ReadyCache clusters, enhancing their ability to optimize content delivery by replicating frequently accessed data at geographically dispersed cache locations. By allowing end users to access cached data from a local server, ReadyCache enables Exodus' customers to distribute content faster and more effectively to prepare for unexpected increases in demand. ArrowPoint's Web switches enhance Exodus' cache clusters by replicating popular content and sending requests for non-cacheable content around the caches and directly to origin servers. The Web switches also accommodate flash crowds by automatically replicating suddenly popular "hot" content on demand. Lots more cache would mean lots more servers and someplace to put the extra data? How often do they update the cached data? Seems like the time lag would decrease the value of the cache? NTAP is aware of the opportunity here.... ArrowPoint Communications and Network Appliance Team to Optimize Web Caches and Scale the World Wide Web Combined Solution Targets Need for Intelligent Caching within Mission Critical Web Sites arrowpoint.com WESTFORD, Mass., November 16, 1998 -- ArrowPoint Communications, the leading provider of Content Smart„ Web server switches, today announced the company?s Content Smart„ Switching products have been certified to interoperate with Network Appliance?s (NASDAQ: NTAP) NetCache„ network cache appliances. The combined solution allows high-end Web content hosters and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement next-generation Web caching in their networks, improving Web response time and content availability for users of high volume Web sites. The two companies also plan to collaborate on joint sales and marketing efforts. Network Appliance?s NetCache products improve the performance of networks and hosted Web sites by locally storing, or "caching", frequently requested content. ArrowPoint?s Content Smart Switching technology optimizes the efficiency of NetCache products in all three major caching configurations ? proxy, transparent, and reverse proxy caching. To dramatically scale a Web site and maintain peak performance, ArrowPoint?s Content Smart Switch can front end multiple NetCache appliances, creating a Content Smart Cache Cluster. The ArrowPoint switches optimize Content Smart Cache Clusters by directing Web requests to the optimum cache server in the cluster and transparently bypassing the cache cluster for non-cacheable content (such as CGI or ASP requests). In addition, since ArrowPoint?s Web server switches are aware of what content is being requested, they are the only products that can deliver guaranteed bandwidth for dynamic content, such as streaming audio and video. "The combination of ArrowPoint?s Content Smart Switches and Network Appliance?s NetCache products deliver tremendous value to ISPs and Web hosters looking to scale their operations while improving Web response time," said Cheng Wu, ArrowPoint?s founder and CEO. "ArrowPoint is excited about partnering with Network Appliance because they can help us deliver on the promise of the Content Smart Internet." "Network Appliance is always looking for ways to optimize the performance of our NetCache Web caching solutions," said Peter Danzig, chief architect for Internet products at Network Appliance. "Because of their content intelligence, ArrowPoint?s products will play an important role in helping our customers provide better access to Web content." ArrowPoint?s Content Smart Switches, the CS-100 and CS-800, serve as an intelligent front-end for a Web server farm or network cache server cluster, maximizing server resources and increasing Web response time. They combine the necessary performance, scalability, and intelligence to enable efficient, reliable, and secure delivery of content. In addition, the products deliver managed bandwidth, ensure Quality of Service levels, and direct Web traffic flows to the optimum local or distributed Web server. Network Appliance?s NetCache products are the industry?s first high-performance, carrier-class Web caching solution that is fully deployable from data centers to remote offices. Designed to enhance end-user quality of service by significantly reducing bandwidth congestion and accelerating cached application performance, NetCache appliances offer industry-leading performance, reliability, flexibility, and security. Availability Support for Network Appliance?s NetCache products in the CS-100 Content Smart Switch is available immediately, with support in the CS-800 Content Smart Switch to be included at first customer ship in Q4 of this year. Interoperability certification will be completed within 30 days. For more information, see ArrowPoint?s "Content Smart Cache Switch" white paper on the ArrowPoint Web site at arrowpoint.com. Keep your eyes open for any SANcacher's. Seems if they wanted to cache huge amount of the web that a SANcache could do it better? Arrowpoint seems to use LOTS of CPUs to study all the data streams. Completely the opposite of the DUMB bandwidth of optics? ArrowPoint has taken the concept of content awareness even further ... It's very possible that ArrowPoint will be the first vendor to deliver the 'dream machine.' " Dumb Q. If the web has all the bandwidth we want, why would we want to cache very much at all? Wonder how much one has to pay to get all this intelligence? If CSCO wants more of this internet food chain will they buy NTAP later this year?

To: Nine_USA who wrote (26725)	5/6/2000 9:09:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

CERN Deploys Cisco Cache Engine for High-Performance Bandwidth Management More Information on Cisco Cache Engine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Gregg Winter Cunningham Communication, Inc. gwinter@ccipr.com (650) 858-3851 Cisco's Web Caching Appliance Reduces Cost for Internet Access SAN JOSE, Calif. -- March 17, 1998 -- Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that CERN, one of the world's largest scientific research laboratories, selected Cisco's Cache Engine to provide accelerated access to the World Wide Web. The Cisco Cache Engine offers a transparent, reliable and scalable solution for CERN's network. "Using the Cache Engine, we have benefited from an immediate and substantial reduction in the costs incurred while connecting to the Internet," said Olivier Martin, leader, External Networking Communications Section of CERN's IT Division. "We installed the Cache Engine quickly, easily and with no impact to our network. As the inventors of the World Wide Web, we understand the importance of this transparency to users." "The Cisco Cache Engine, like all of our Internet appliances, is easy to install and deploy and requires no additional client configuration during operation, enabling seamless integration into the network," said Christine Hemrick, vice president and general manager of the Internet Appliances and Applications Business Unit at Cisco Systems. "Internet appliances like the Cache Engine will play an integral role in providing efficient and reliable bandwidth management to the growing wave of users connecting to the Internet." By deploying the Cisco Cache Engine at a central location on its enterprise campus, CERN is able to significantly decrease its bandwidth wide area network (WAN) link requirements while maintaining a reliable and transparent connection to the Internet for its researchers. Consequently, overall usage costs, particularly those incurred while connecting to sites overseas, are reduced, making additional bandwidth available to enable more services on the existing WAN link. Transparency, Reliability, Scalability and Ease of Use The Cisco Cache Engine is the industry's first dedicated Internet appliance designed to scale the Internet infrastructure and eliminate repeated transmission of redundant Web content. The Cisco Cache Engine stores World Wide Web pages locally, enabling Internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprises to reduce WAN usage costs by decreasing the number of times they must utilize their WAN connections. At the same time, enterprise network users and ISP customers experience quicker response to Web content requests, allowing ISPs to differentiate their services. The Cisco Cache Engine is a key member of the solutions Cisco offers for scaling the Internet, including high-speed scalable routing and switching technologies, and the Cisco LocalDirector and DistributedDirector for Internet server and content load balancing. About Cisco Systems I guess it the the internet refrigerator, so you don't have to go out to the store as ofen. Anyway CSCO is moving closer to where the information really lives. Lets watch and see who they buy next. Could CSCO and EMC merge someday??