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Slashdot Effect Obsolete

New E-commerce Infrastructure Available from Red Hill Networks

Tustin, CA, January 25, 2000 E-commerce depends on reliable web servers. But web servers go down--costing e-commerce providers millions of dollars annually. Red Hill Networks, the e-commerce infrastructure start-up behind the WebSpray tool, today released WebMux and WebMux Pro.

WebMux is an integrated load balancing solution which, deployed by ASP and Web farm providers, will significantly reduce downtime for e-commerce sites. In the past, when too many users have tried to go to the same Web site at the same time, the Web site became overloaded--a problem popularly known as the "Slashdot effect", and responsible for millions of dollars annually in lost revenues and expensive hardware upgrades. WebMux, based on a proprietary Red Hill algorithm optimized to process large numbers of simultaneous Web requests, was designed as a scalable and flexible solution to the Slashdot effect. The algorithm allows WebMux to process incoming traffic and distribute it across an array of linked computers, effectively turning a web farm into a single parallel supercomputer. WebMux's diskless architecture works in tandem with this parallel array, efficiently processing and routing the IP traffic to serve up fresh content at high speeds with little downtime. A built-in sensor checks at layers four and above to determine what kind of traffic is incoming--from Web surfing to file transfers. And persistent connection support makes sure that cookies and other personalized user interaction stays personalized. Beside the Web hosting sector, analysts expect WebMux to have the greatest impact on the growing Applications Service Provider (ASP) market. As ASPs come online with customized solutions that take advantage of broadband connectivity, the need for reliable infrastructure that can quickly be expanded is growing. The new WebMux offering will allow Red Hill to provide one-stop shopping for ASPs looking to ensure their reliability.

Red Hill Networks has already won industry acclaim in this area through WebSpray, a Web server-testing tool that combines a point-and-click interface with the ability to simulate up to 1000 clients from multiple IP addresses. For a limited time, WebSpray will be provided free of charge to WebMux users, according to the Red Hill announcement. Among WebMux's other features are an easy, secure management interface which allows the load balancer to be handled from anywhere on the Internet, and firewall protection, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, TCP SYN protection, and Network Address Translation (NAT). WebMux Pro offers additional fault tolerant protection through an intelligent secondary load balancer that automates the configuration process.

WebMux and WebMux Pro will be made available through leading worldwide distributor TechData, a Red Hill partner and Fortune 500 Company. Through its business-to-business infrastructure portal, TechData distributes to over 70 countries and serves over 100,000 resellers worldwide.

About Red Hill Networks, Inc.

Red Hill Networks is a Tustin; California based e-commerce infrastructure, which specializes in web server reliability solutions. In addition to WebMux and WebSpray, Red Hill is the company behind firewall box FireSafe and upgradeable network router IntelliRoute 7000.

Trademarks

WebMux and WebMux Pro are trademarks of Red Hill Networks, Inc.

For more information, please contact:

CAI Networks, Inc.
David Merit
714-550-0901 X 7156

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