(sounds big to me...) Network Appliance Enables Deutsche Telekom to Stream Some of Europe's Most Popular Programs
Live and On-Demand Functionality, Data Center and Edge Solutions Demonstrate Network Appliance Superiority for Content Delivery
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000-- Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, has been selected by T-Mart, a Deutsche Telekom company, to power T-Mart's growing streaming media services. Just recently, Network Appliance(TM) NetCache(TM) solutions enabled T-Mart to stream some of Europe's most popular programs--VIVA, BigBrother 2, and CNN/NTV--over the Internet. T-Mart now uses NetCache systems distributed throughout Europe at the network edge and NetCache and filer appliances at the company's data center. T-Mart has been so pleased with the performance of Network Appliance that it will transfer its entire streaming business, including services offered to large clients Deutsche Welle and Kirch Gruppe, to Network Appliance systems.
For Network Appliance, this win at Deutsche Telekom demonstrates the company's ``end to end'' value proposition for moving and managing content from the data center to the network edge, validates the company's technology lead in content delivery solutions, and furthers Network Appliance's growing customer success with large global telecommunications leaders.
``We are expanding our audio/video services and Network Appliance content delivery solutions are a reliable investment for that expansion,'' said Uwe Schnepf, product manager at T-Mart. ``Their solutions are easy to integrate into the rest of our infrastructure, scale quickly, and enable us to offer a broad array of streaming and content delivery applications to our customers.''
``T-Mart is at the leading edge of next-generation Internet applications and we're delighted to be a strategic supplier and critical enabler of their success,'' said Amit Pandey, marketing director for the content delivery business unit at Network Appliance.
(ps- DS, let's face it: you're always cool!)
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S+P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions. NetApp Internet caching solutions (NetCache appliances) and file servers (filers) deliver fast, simple, reliable, and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX®, Windows NT®, and the World Wide Web.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance filers and NetCache appliances are based on the company's innovative data access software known as the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system and standards-compliant hardware. More information is available at www.netapp.com.
NetApp and the Network Appliance logo are registered trademarks and Network Appliance, NetCache, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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