SkyCache and Novell Announce Certification of Internet Caching Solution for ISPs, Enterprises
and Web-Enabled Businesses
Novell's BorderManager FastCache Now SkyCache Certified
PROVO, Utah October 14, 1998 SkyCache Inc., the world's premier high-speed
datacasting company revolutionizing the Internet, and Novell, Inc., the Internet caching leader, today
announced that Novell's BorderManager FastCache is certified SkyCache Compatible. This
certification will allow the 4.5 million enterprise customers currently using BorderManager FastCache
technology for accelerating access to popular Web pages to realize additional performance enhancements
through cache injections of high-quality data from SkyCache satellite broadcast technology.
ISPs and Web-enabled businesses will realize reduced bandwidth and communications costs plus faster
response times when the most popular, constantly updated Internet and news traffic is delivered via
SkyCache's satellite broadcast service to BorderManager FastCache. End users reap faster response times
since the most commonly requested Web pages are stored at local Web cache servers.
"Testing BorderManager FastCache was a pleasant surprise. Novell is obviously serious about ISPs and
caching," stated Doug Humphrey, president and CEO of SkyCache. "The combination of SkyCache and
BorderManager FastCache provides ISPs and enterprise customers a powerful solution for maximizing
bandwidth and improving the cache hit ratio to improve customer and end user performance."
SkyCache, through a combination of its patent-pending Reactive Caching system and cache prepopulation,
provides superior performance by supplementing a stand-alone cache with high-quality data delivered by
satellite broadcast technology. The SkyCache Release 1.0 cache turbocharging service enables ISPs to add
more customers to existing leased line capacity and deliver substantially faster web page response times in
many cases.
"Caching enables enterprise customers and ISPs to maximize use of available network bandwidth and
improve performance for the end user," commented Chris Stone, senior vice president of corporate strategy
and development of Novell. "As businesses continue to add Web servers and intranets to their networks,
SkyCache is a good complement to FastCache for creating a cost-effective caching solution for our
customers. Given the successful adoption of Novell's caching technology in the enterprise market, we can
now translate that expertise to ISPs and customers of all sizes that are now beginning to use the Web for
business."
BorderManager FastCache is the performance foundation of BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3, Novell's
Internet security management suite for NDS-enabled networks. BorderManager FastCache, the industry's
fastest, most scalable Internet caching solution for Web-enabled businesses, content publishers and ISPs,
speeds user access to popular Web information, reduces network bandwidth requirements and provides a
cost effective alternative to upgrading overburdened Web servers.
Leveraging the performance strengths of NetWare® 5, BorderManager FastCache can handle over
100,000 simultaneous persistent connections and can offload as much as 75% of the Web traffic on an
Internet connection. BorderManager FastCache provides a strong performance foundation for firewalls
already installed in a network environment and can be easily integrated in any NetWare, NT, UNIX or
heterogeneous network.
SkyCache uses satellite broadcast technology to constantly load the most often requested Internet and Web
pages directly into customer-side ICP-compliant caches. In addition, SkyCache uses reporting statistics
from customers to build a large cache community for the reactive caching component of the service.
SkyCache, by virtue of being a true broadcast mechanism to deliver data, solves updating and
communications problems across distributed caching systems implemented by Tier 1 ISPs and enterprises.
Since all caches are constantly and directly refreshed with the most frequently accessed Web pages via
satellite, terrestrial leased line bandwidth is not consumed by cache communication and data updating, nor
is it necessary to implement a multi-tiered hierarchical infrastructure.
The SkyCache certification covers BorderManager v2.1 and BorderManager FastCache v2.1, which are
currently shipping, as well as BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3 and BorderManager FastCache 3,
which are currently in controlled beta.
About SkyCache
SkyCache is devoted to the implementation and operation of high-speed satellite datacasting systems for the
movement of World Wide Web content, Usenet News, digital audio and video data streams, and the
synchronization of distributed data systems, among other applications. The corporation is headquartered in
Laurel, MD and founded by Internet pioneer Doug Humphrey. Humphrey is also the founder of DIGEX,
Inc., a 1991 basement startup ISP that was sold for $150 million to Intermedia Communications, Inc. in
1997. Additional information on SkyCache services is available at www.skycache.com. "SkyCache" and its logo are trademarked
throughout the world and "SkyCache Compatible" is a trademark of SkyCache. SkyCache is a privately
held company.
About Novell
Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The
company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet/intranet and small-
business markets, as well as the network computing industry's most comprehensive education and technical
support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products and services can be
accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com.
Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks and BorderManager, BorderManager Enterprise Edition and
BorderManager FastCache are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks
are the property of their respective holders.
Contact for Skycache:
Doug Mohney
Director of Marketing
Voice: 301-598-0500 x2208
Fax: 301-598-0837
e-mail: moo@skycache.com
Contact for Novell:
Gordon Evans
Novell, Inc.
Phone: 408-577-6371
e-mail: gmevans@novell.com