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To: riposte who wrote (439)	11/16/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 10934

ArrowPoint Communications and Network Appliance Team to Optimize Web Caches and Scale The World Wide Web Monday, November 16, 1998 08:01 AM - Combined Solution Targets Need for Intelligent Caching within Mission Critical Web Sites - WESTFORD, Mass., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ArrowPoint Communications, the leading provider of Content Smart(TM) Web server switches, today announced the company's Content Smart(TM) Switching products have been certified to interoperate with Network Appliance's (Nasdaq: NTAP) NetCache(TM) 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