Re: [Auth]United States Patents

[Albert Scherbinsky]

Albert Scherbinsky wrote:
> 
> A snippet from the exodus.net web site:
> [[BOSTON, Mass. - July 16, 2002 - Cable & Wireless (NYSE:
> CWP) today filed a suit in U.S. District Court charging that
> Akamai Technologies, Inc. infringes on a newly issued
> content-delivery-network (CDN) patent, which covers ways to
> ensure that only the freshest information is served to Web
> sites and ways to optimize content storage by avoiding
> duplication of information in a CDN.]]
> 
> Cable & Wireless owns exodus.net. For several hours today I
> have not been able to access anything that crosses Exodus'
> network, like google.com for instance. Has Akamai stopped
> content distribution for anything that crosses Exodus.
> Wouldn't that be a hoot.

Five minutes after I sent that e-mail, I could get across
Exodus.
Coincidence, probably not.

Cheers,
Albert Scherbinsky
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