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Web acceleration and content delivery networks were spawned from the need to bring 'Net surfers closer to their favorite sites. Now vendors are trying to bring these technologies closer to home for corporate network professionals.

Since its founding in 1999, Akamai Technologies Inc. has turned the Internet's biggest problem - its sluggishness - into the basis for a lucrative business model. By setting up the premier content-delivery network to speed Web pages to computers worldwide, the company has created the next best thing to universal broadband connections - and generated $90 million in annual revenues in the process.

Cisco Systems Inc. has spent close to $7 billion in the past year assembling a line of products aimed at speeding the delivery of Web content across private and public IP networks. The company considers content networking to be at or near the top of its priority list in the enterprise and service provider markets.

Information security architect Joe Judge faced a security challenge. But he didn't want to have to become an expert in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to solve it.

Sensing an opportunity to profit from caching, Web content management vendor Inktomi Corp. [Nasdaq:INKT] and a group of other information distribution companies have announced an alliance designed to speed the delivery of Web content by pushing it closer to end users.

Internet access providers that freely serve up information that content producers use to make money may soon have a system that reimburses them for their efforts. The same system promises to give content providers (companies that create commercial Web sites) a way to collect usage information and increase the performance of their sites.

A collection of CDN (content delivery network) companies, content providers, and hosting companies are creating a single content delivery platform that combines all their networks to improve Web performance.

Startup Speedera Networks Inc. this week launched content distribution services that will let business users increase performance and reliability on their Web sites.

Attempting to solve the problem of how to cache fast-changing Web content while ensuring that only the most up-to-date data is held in cache, Persistence Software Inc. yesterday announced a new solution dubbed Dynamai.

Not all content-delivery services are created alike. They're all aimed at speeding delivery of Web content to visitors, but there are crucial differences in technology and architectural approaches to be considered when choosing a provider, users and analysts said.

CMGI Inc. announced today that it has launched a $500 million company, CMGion, that it says will help deliver targeted content and software services through a sister company that operates data centers worldwide.