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Fax: 301-598-0837
e-mail: moo@skycache.com
SkyCache(TM) Renovates Internet Through Satellite Data Delivery Technology
SkyCache Marries Satellite Broadcast With Large Cache Community
ISPCON, Baltimore Convention Center, March 17, 1998 - SkyCache,
Inc. introduced today at ISPCON its first service, SkyCache, a cache-enhancing service
that will radically change the way data traverses the Internet.
Bigger pipes aren't the solution for the most popular Web traffic and streaming
media," remarks Doug Humphrey, President and Chief Executive Officer of SkyCache.
"The Internet needs a fundamental change in how repetitive high-volume data is moved.
SkyCache will be the catalyst for that change."
The SkyCache service uses satellite broadcast to constantly load the most often
requested Internet Web and news traffic directly into customer-side, ICP-compliant caches.
In addition, SkyCache uses reporting statistics from customer-side caches to build a large
cache community. The combination of satellite broadcast technology with the creation of a
large cache community offers a superior solution to the traditional stand-alone cache.
ISPs and Fortune 1000 WAN/LANs have the potential to reduce 30-50% in current bandwidth
utilization.
SkyCache utilizes WavePhore, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: WAVO) advanced satellite receivers
and uplink equipment to create this new Internet data delivery network. WavePhore is
installing one-meter satellite dishes and four megabit per second IDR V1000 variable bit
rate satellite receivers with Ethernet output at every SkyCache customer site. WavePhore
has also installed its network management system at SkyCache's Laurel, Maryland uplink
facility, which is expected to serve more than 200 locations within the next twelve
months.
ADVANTAGES OF SKYCACHE
By receiving periodic updates of the most popular Internet Web and news traffic via
satellite and bypassing congested Network Access Points (NAPs), ISPs and WAN/LAN operators
experience a dramatic reduction in bandwidth usage, greater Internet response times, and a
substantial reduction in communication costs. End users also reap faster response times
since the most commonly requested Web site pages are stored at local servers.
SPRING ISPCON '98
Doug Mohney, director of marketing, Humphrey and sales executives will be available to
answer questions about these new products at ISPCON booth #661.
Humphrey will be presenting at ISPCON during the following sessions: Keynote
speaker on Tuesday, 9:00 AM, Room: 1; "SkyCache - Moving the Web to the Edge of the
Network" on Tuesday, March 17, 1:30 PM - Room: 310; and the moderator of the
"Caching Panel," Thursday at 4:30 PM - Room: 310.
SkyCache is hosting an evening reception for the press and customers on
Wednesday, March 18, from 7-10 PM, at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore.
SKYCACHE, INC.
SkyCache is devoted to the implementation of high-speed one way digital distribution
systems, application in the movement of digital audio and video data streams, World Wide
Web content, and the synchronization of distributed data systems. The corporation is
headquartered in Laurel, Maryland and founded by Internet pioneer Doug Humphrey. Humphrey
is the founder of DIGEX, Inc., a 1991 basement startup ISP that was sold for $150 million
to Intermedia Communications, Inc. in 1997. Humphrey retired from DIGEX in 1997 to start
SkyCache. Additional information on SkyCache services is available at www.skycache.com. "SkyCache" and its logo are
trademarked throughout the world.
WAVEPHORE, INC.
WavePhore, Inc., (Nasdaq: WAVO), is the global leader in connecting people with compelling
information in the office and at home. The corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ,
and composed of three business units: WavePhore Networks, WavePhore Newscast, and WaveTop.
WavePhore Networks, the industry leader in data broadcasting, provides flexible,
high-speed data delivery for information publishers to more than 80,000 sites worldwide.
WavePhore Newscast is the Web's premier business infosource for enterprise-wideuse.
WaveTop is the first free advertising-supported nationwide data broadcast system to
deliver multimedia content to broadcast ready PC's in the home.