CacheFlow Unveils Active Web Caching Device

To speed delivery of information and access to the Internet, CacheFlow (Palo Alto, CA) has unveiled the CacheFlow 1000 network infrastructure device for actively caching web pages. The device actively caches Web pages using an embedded operating system specifically built and optimized simply to actively cache the Web. The system is scalable up to 25 gigabytes of disk storage. The product "blows the doors off of the other Web caching product we tried," said Chris Nespor, Senior Systems Analyst at Raytheon Services Company (Burlington, MA). Lucinda Borovick of

International Data Corporation (IDC, Framingham, MA) says that next generation Internet applications will require mission-critical performance and timely access to information. "Web caching is becoming critical to improving the speed of the Web for enterprise networks," she said. CacheFlow 1000 is now available, with prices ranging from $39,500 for a device with 8 gigabytes of disk storage to $47,700 for a device with 25 gigabytes of disk.