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Akamai and Cacheflow to Integrate Cache Interface Standard
Akamai is teaming with CacheFlow to achieve interoperability between CacheFlow Internet Caching Appliances and Akamai's Internet content delivery service, FreeFlow. The added functionality will be derived from the development of a new standard for communications called the Cache Interface Protocol. The new protocol will be made freely available to facilitate interoperability with caching devices. The new software will enable caches to store content currently carried on the Akamai network and report on performance metrics - such as the number of hits served - to Web site owners, through Akamai's content delivery services. This development will expand the level of integration between caches and content networks, delivering performance and management benefits to eBusinesses and service providers.
"CacheFlow is excited to be working with Akamai to enable our Internet Caching Appliances and its Internet content delivery service to work together closely," said Stu Aaron, vice president of marketing and product management at CacheFlow. "CacheFlow's line of caching products are used in many ISP and enterprise networks that would benefit from accessing 'Akamaized' content locally."
CacheFlow Internet Caching Appliances locally store and serve the Internet pages most often requested by users, while simultaneously monitoring the source of those pages for content changes. As a result, the CacheFlow solution improves end-user response time by up to 10-fold, ensures the freshness and accuracy of content, and more efficiently utilizes existing bandwidth.
Each product in the CacheFlow line is designed to satisfy different network needs, such as differences in workload, scalability and high-availability requirements. CacheFlow products install in minutes, are self-tuning, and require minimal administration.
About CacheFlow Inc.
CacheFlow Inc. is the pioneer and worldwide leader in Internet caching appliances. The company's family of appliances has been swiftly adopted by Fortune 100 enterprises and Internet Service Providers seeking to gain competitive advantage by improving end-user response time while saving on costs of bandwidth and management. CacheFlow products contain the patent-pending CacheOSTM software. Privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California, CacheFlow can be contacted via telephone: (408) 220 2200, fax: (408) 220 2250, email: info@cacheflow.com and the Internet at http://www.cacheflow.com.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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| Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
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Company partners with CacheFlow to enhance interoperability between Internet Caching Appliances and Akamai's Internet content delivery service
CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 22, 1999 -- Akamai Technologies, which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, announced today that it has formed a technology relationship with CacheFlow. Key to the relationship is the development of specialized software that facilitates communications between CacheFlow's appliances and Akamai's global network of servers.Akamai is teaming with CacheFlow to achieve interoperability between CacheFlow Internet Caching Appliances and Akamai's Internet content delivery service, FreeFlow. The added functionality will be derived from the development of a new standard for communications called the Cache Interface Protocol. The new protocol will be made freely available to facilitate interoperability with caching devices. The new software will enable caches to store content currently carried on the Akamai network and report on performance metrics - such as the number of hits served - to Web site owners, through Akamai's content delivery services. This development will expand the level of integration between caches and content networks, delivering performance and management benefits to eBusinesses and service providers.
"CacheFlow is excited to be working with Akamai to enable our Internet Caching Appliances and its Internet content delivery service to work together closely," said Stu Aaron, vice president of marketing and product management at CacheFlow. "CacheFlow's line of caching products are used in many ISP and enterprise networks that would benefit from accessing 'Akamaized' content locally."
CacheFlow Internet Caching Appliances locally store and serve the Internet pages most often requested by users, while simultaneously monitoring the source of those pages for content changes. As a result, the CacheFlow solution improves end-user response time by up to 10-fold, ensures the freshness and accuracy of content, and more efficiently utilizes existing bandwidth.
Each product in the CacheFlow line is designed to satisfy different network needs, such as differences in workload, scalability and high-availability requirements. CacheFlow products install in minutes, are self-tuning, and require minimal administration.
About CacheFlow Inc.
CacheFlow Inc. is the pioneer and worldwide leader in Internet caching appliances. The company's family of appliances has been swiftly adopted by Fortune 100 enterprises and Internet Service Providers seeking to gain competitive advantage by improving end-user response time while saving on costs of bandwidth and management. CacheFlow products contain the patent-pending CacheOSTM software. Privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California, CacheFlow can be contacted via telephone: (408) 220 2200, fax: (408) 220 2250, email: info@cacheflow.com and the Internet at http://www.cacheflow.com.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
