High-performance network caching company CacheFlow
entered a distribution partnership agreement with UK systems integrator BTN Internetworking Ltd.
The partnership is intended to enable CacheFlow to increase the sale of its
products in
Europe and satisfy the growing demand for appliances that enhance the
speed of the World Wide Web by caching Web pages.
“In today’s highly competitive network environment, CacheFlow gives
BTN the ability to deliver reliable caching appliances that offer increased
bandwidth gains and the industry’s fastest download times, all with a
minimum of administrative requirements,” said Ken Baynton, managing
director of BTN Internetworking Limited.
“As BTN serves a wide variety of blue chip clients with diverse networking
needs it is imperative it offers
best of breed network caching appliances that deliver multi-faceted
benefits.”
In a statement, CacheFlow noted that the market for caching products is
expanding to become a multi-billion dollar industry by 2001, a fact
confirmed in an independent study by Collaborative Research. Internet
Service Providers (such as Demon Internet in the UK, which uses a rival
product) are installing cache devices to reduce bandwidth consumption
and improve their subscribers’ experience.
Not only the Internet, but corporate intranets, too, can benefit from
caching, said the vendor. A recent Forrester report said that by 1999 all
Fortune 1000 companies will depend on network caches for the smooth
running of their intranets.
CacheFlow embeds a patent-pending operating system named CacheOS
in its products. CacheOS is designed to improve user response times
significantly by providing cached pages for up to 75 per cent of requests.
With its adaptive algorithms, CacheOS is self-tuning and easy to
administer, the company said.
BTN provides LAN switching, remote access and network security
solutions to over 900 different organisations.
