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To: browser who wrote (38607)	5/6/1999 10:10:00 PM
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SCF.......... by: nyheternu 466 of 466 BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1999-- Premium Caching Offering Brings AGIS Carrier and Corporate Customers Fastest Available Broadband Internet Performance; Partnership Agreement with AGIS and Novell Expands Mirror Image Market Reach Committed to delivering caching solutions that unleash the full potential of the broadband Internet, Mirror Image Internet, Inc., majority owned by The Scandinavia Company, Inc., (AMEX:SCF) today announced a partnership agreement with AGIS, one of the largest global facility-based Internet access and data service providers. Under this agreement, AGIS will offer a bundled Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) and Mirror Image total caching solution to ISPs and corporate subscribers nationwide as a premium service option with AGIS' advanced data service offerings. Through the partnership agreement, the AGIS direct sales force will sell the bundled Internet acceleration solution as a premium offering for an additional monthly fee. The solution is based on locally installed Novell BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3 servers accessing the Mirror Image global network of large, scaleable central caches at key Internet exchange points, bringing Internet content closer to end users and exponentially improving the performance of subscribers' networks. "Mirror Image, Novell and AGIS create a winning combination for our joint customers in the Internet industry - ISPs, carriers, and companies that require high performance Internet service at an affordable cost," said Skip Seitz, executive vice president of Sales AGIS. "This agreement expands the market opportunity for AGIS, Novell and Mirror Image Internet - and provides an ideal approach to caching that supports 24x7 Internet user demands for international and domestic ISPs and Web-enabled corporate networks." "The Internet user's appetite for bandwidth is inherently insatiable," said David Wu, president of Mirror Image Internet, Inc. "By joining forces with AGIS, Novell and other Mirror Image strategic partners, we're able to deliver caching solutions that make the full broadband Internet possible." "As content publishers, enterprises and ISPs implement increasingly complex and performance intensive Web sites, the need for caching as core Internet infrastructure technology to enhance network performance becomes critical for telecommunications companies and carrier class networks," commented Smita Deshpande, director of marketing, Novell Internet products. "With over five million enterprise users already relying on Novell's Internet caching technology to enhance their Web performance, we have clearly established ourselves as the leader in the caching market. Today's announcement builds on our existing partnerships with AGIS and Mirror Image to provide complete Internet services for customers of all sizes." Premium Service Pricing and Availability AGIS will begin offering the bundled Novell / Mirror Image Internet acceleration solution to their nationwide customers immediately at an additional monthly charge above the current AGIS monthly access fees. For more details about this premium service offering, contact AGIS at 1-800-380-AGIS or email sales@agis.net. Most of the products that were "hot" represented the increasing maturity of the internet. New hot products represented add-ons to the existing infrastructure to improve the quality of users' experience (such as "caching", load balancing "premium" fees to be collected by service providers)..... Traffic Caching. Inktomi, Cacheflow, Network Appliance, Novell, Cisco, Mirror Image and others were presenting this technology as means of improving network response times in full filling end-user requests.... Posted: 05/06/99, 7:50PM EDT as a reply to: Msg 464 by h