Content Networking Technologies Play Key Role in Keeping Nation Informed and Connected in Time...

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CDN Fall 2001

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001

Penton Media, Inc. Event Offers Essential Information on

Content Networking -- Used to Keep Media Web Sites Up and Running

Last Month, and Essential

CDN -- The Content Networking Event, the only one of its kind, scheduled for December 4-6 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif., has not seen a down-turn in interest from industry innovators, leading engineers, scientists and business developers. That's because content networking technology -- at the heart of future e-business -- plays a key role in managing information delivery when need is high. Over sixty conference sessions, led by 120+ speakers, and a full day of pre-conference marketplace panels and tutorials, aimed at helping businesses exploit content networking infrastructures in new ways for profit, are being announced by show producer Stardust.com, a subsidiary of Penton Media Inc. (NYSE:PME).

Interest in traveling to speak and join the debate on the growth of this important technology infrastructure continues unabated despite recent national events and the general state of the economy. A list of speakers, moderators, and panelists from the business and technology community who will be challenging some fundamental issues such as privacy and the impact on technology and services growth, is attached.

The conference includes keynote presentations, conference sessions and workshops led by the innovators who have found the dollars in parlaying content networking infrastructure into business best practices, new edge services and technical solutions that offer paybacks, despite the economic climate.

A new level of intelligence in networks which provides customized, efficient handling and delivery of targeted or personalized content in a format appropriate for the destination device is continuing to drive interest in this conference. A focus on customized edge services, delivered to consumers over DSL, cable modem, and wireless last-mile networks, is a complement to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). CDNs emerged to prevent Web site access bottlenecks. Their current relevance to the country's information needs commands the attention of several sessions. Now, as CDN caches crop up in virtually every last-mile Internet service provider (ISP) network, the customer profile and address information stored there can be leveraged in new ways, to be explored by the experts in the field who have committed to speak at the conference.