Dear iCAP Forum Member,
You are highly encouraged to come to the free iCAP Forum, which will be held
at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose on January 25th from 8:30 am to noon.
You will see demos of iCAP solutions from Trend Micro, Zack Network,
Everypath, and 8e6 Technologies and be able to network with other iCAP
developers and customers. You will also hear from Thomas Zaech of
HypoVereins Bank, who will discuss the bank's deployment of its iCAP
solution. For more information, visit the iCAP Web site at
http://www.i-cap.org or call (925) 287-5111 to register; you can also
register at the event.
As an open standard architecture, iCAP provides, for the first time, a
non-proprietary and simple scheme for Internet caching servers -- some of
the primary engines that run the Internet -- to communicate with application
and content servers, Internet engines typically located at the "edge" of the
network closest to the user. The new iCAP protocol represents a significant
step forward in reinforcing the Internet's infrastructure to support
emerging wireless access devices, simplify creation of value-added services
delivered from the edge of the network, and improve Internet security.
With this new protocol, new access devices and value-added services can
easily be added to existing systems as modules, without the need to rewrite
software using the proprietary schemes that are widely employed today. For
instance, initial iCAP customers estimate that with iCAP, new devices and
services can be adapted to access Internet content within several weeks
versus 4-6 months with previous technology. iCAP will provide a scalable
and interoperable infrastructure to support delivery of a massive array of
services at the edge of the network such as dynamic virus scanning, content
filtering, human language translation, and personalized ad insertion.
About iCAP
The iCAP Forum is hosted by Network Appliance and Akamai Technologies and is
joined by dozens of the industry's leading Internet companies including
content delivery service providers, application developers, and Internet
infrastructure companies. Information on how to participate in development
of the protocol is available on the iCAP Web site or by contacting
partners(_at_)i-cap(_dot_)org(_dot_)
Kind Regards,
Lee
E. Lee Duggs
Co-Chairperson
iCAP Forum
Office: 408-822-3816
Fax: 408-822-4565
Pager: 408-697-5672
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