PRODUCT PRESS RELEASE
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ALTEREGO NETWORKS Introduces First Mobile Web Server For Enterprises, Telcos and Internet Service Providers

New Products Offer Secure, Reliable, Managed Environment For Deploying
Enterprise Applications and Web Content to Mobile Employees and Customers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 14, 2000—AlterEgo Networks Inc., the leading provider of software and services for building the mobile enterprise, today announced AlterEgo Mobile Web Server 2.0, the industry’s first server-based software to offer enterprises, carriers and Internet service providers a scalable and reliable platform for securely deploying enterprise applications and web content to any type of wireless or wired device, including cell phones, PDAs, 2-way pagers and Internet appliances. AlterEgo Mobile Web Server 2.0 allows companies to leverage their existing web infrastructure investments with the proven technology currently powering AlterEgo’s worldwide Adaptive Network. This includes the InktomiÒ Traffic ServerÒ network cache platform and AlterEgo’s patent-pending software that enables the highest quality transformation of content and applications for the best user experience possible for any mobile net access device. The new product is specifically designed to deploy applications and content to distributed employees and customers in a way that reinforces the security and manageability of sensitive information.

To complement AlterEgo Mobile Web Server, AlterEgo also today announced the availability of a licensed version of its AlterEgo Designer 2.0, a powerful, simple HTML-to-XSL creation tool capable of bringing existing content and applications to any device. AlterEgo Designer 2.0 is a powerful GUI-based, drag-and-drop tool that enables the rapid creation of templates based on the XML-related standard, XSL (Extensible Style sheet Language). AlterEgo Designer enables businesses to make precise determinations about how content, graphic images, navigation and user interfaces will be deployed to literally any type of wireless or wired device enabling the best possible solution for mobile employees and customers.

"The promise of XML-based technologies is the empowerment of enterprises who publish and communicate over the Internet to address all of their stakeholders regardless of device and access," observed Mark Plakias, Vice President of Voice & Wireless Commerce at The Kelsey Group. "With the proliferation of wireless, presentation solutions like the Mobile Web Server point towards a near-term future where intelligence at the edge delaminates devices, access, and presentation from the core content and applications server. The day is coming when HTML is just one of many formats that enterprises and their service providers communicate through."

"To meet the business demands of the mobile Internet, enterprises, carriers and service providers require a high-performance, reliable solution that protects the investments made in existing infrastructures," said Richard Ling, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks. "Without duplicating the capabilities already in place with applications servers and web servers, Mobile Web Server addresses these challenges with the most advanced path for extending enterprise applications and Internet content to any device. This platform uniquely positions AlterEgo within the mobile Internet market with the only solutions offered both as outsourced services and products inside the firewall, addressing the broadest set of needs possible."

AlterEgo Mobile Web Server 2.0
AlterEgo Mobile Web Server 2.0 leverages the core technology currently deployed throughout the 10 nodes within AlterEgo’s Adaptive Network, performing all of the functionality – content adaptation, image transformation, bandwidth detection – necessary to bring existing data to wireless devices. AlterEgo has proven the performance and reliability of this technology through more than 10 customer implementations across its Adaptive Network, including USATODAY.com, ConsumerReview.com and ClearStation.

AlterEgo Mobile Web Server 2.0 offers enterprises, carriers and Internet Service Providers a robust set of features for adapting web content and applications to any mobile device format:

• Detection of current and future mobile device types & bandwidth
• Multiple data format input capability (HTML, XML)
• Automated adaptation of HTML and XML to desired mobile device formats, such as WML, HDML, C-HTML, XHTML, etc.
• Integration with existing web infrastructure platforms, such as content development, content management and application servers
• SSL/TLS encryption
• Tight integration with industry-leading Inktomi Traffic Server
• Support of leading operating systems, including Microsoft Windows NT and Sun Solaris
• Support of all current and future web-enabled cell phones, PDAs, and 2-way pagers

AlterEgo Mobile Web Server’s unobtrusive design allows for easy integration into existing web infrastructures – application servers, web servers and content management systems – protecting existing investments. Unlike mobile application servers, which duplicate the business logic capabilities already present in most web application server platforms, AlterEgo Mobile Web Server complements existing capabilities by integrating a powerful presentation layer capability that requires no re-engineering to integrate with existing back-end enterprise software systems, such as databases, ERP and SFA systems. AlterEgo Mobile Web Server sits at the presentation layer, taking existing web infrastructure output in HTML, XML and XSL formats, and adapting it for any target mobile device requesting information. This architecture also allows ISPs and Telcos to build multi-site, multi-node wireless content adaptation and delivery networks.

AlterEgo Mobile Web Server features patent-pending adaptation technology that compares incoming HTML pages to an XML rules database and modifies content as appropriate. Core data transformation technology includes content adaptation technology to optimize text for various form factors, image transformation technology that adapts image files as instructed by specially embedded tags, and bandwidth detection technology that measures effective transmission speeds between users and the MWS (this information may then be applied for fine-tuning adaptation rules).

AlterEgo is offering its AlterEgo Mobile Web Server in three different editions—Develop, QA, and Deploy—to enable customers to test and QA the solution before investing in a full deployment version of the technology. As a limited time promotion, AlterEgo is extending use of its Adaptive Network to companies that purchase AlterEgo Mobile Web Server, Deploy Edition via its AlterEgo CD service, which is the dedicated content delivery service for mobile content and applications thru AlterEgo’s worldwide, multi-node delivery network.

AlterEgo Designer 2.0 – Powerful XSL Creation Tool
AlterEgo is now offering its patent-pending XSL creation technology to companies that want to adapt their existing HTML content using XSL. AlterEgo Designer, based on core technology utilizes highly graphical ‘drag and drop’ tools for the real-time tagging of HTML objects for conversion into XML-based adaptation rules. AlterEgo Designer enables a company’s content designers or web masters to quickly determine which content and images will be deployed to each type of mobile device. AlterEgo Designer works in real-time, simulating a target device on screen, allowing the designer to preview each conversion as it’s implemented. Once adapted, the content can be translated into the presentation layer appropriate for each wireless device. This tool enables any enterprise to take its existing content and services to any type of device with a minimum of effort and time.

Inktomi Network Infrastructure Technology -- Enabling the Wireless Internet
Mobile Web Server leverages the Inktomi (NASDAQ: INKT) network infrastructure cache platform for the delivery of wireless content and services, the same successful technology deployed within AlterEgo’s Adaptive Network across North America and Europe. Each Mobile Web Server is integrated with Inktomi Traffic Server software to process and store content at the edge of the network, managing increasing wireless Internet traffic while conserving bandwidth. With Inktomi infrastructure technology embedded in the Mobile Web Server, wireless Internet users will benefit from fast, reliable access to Web-based content and services.

Pricing and Availability
All of AlterEgo's Adaptive services and products are available now as pilot deployments. Pricing for AlterEgo Mobile Web Server is based on a per CPU basis and varies with each edition and configuration.

About AlterEgo Networks
AlterEgo is an infrastructure software company building a more intelligent Internet to simplify the delivery of Web content and enterprise applications to any type of wireless or wired net access device. The company offers a family of software products and outsourced services tailored to address the unique content adaptation and delivery needs of global B2C content producers, enterprises, B2B exchanges and wireless carriers. All services are powered by the AlterEgo Adaptive Network, a fault-tolerant content delivery network operating internationally across 10 nodes. All products and services employ patent-pending technology and proprietary techniques for applying server clustering and content caching to ensure customers a high degree of scalability, security and reliability. AlterEgo is based in Redwood City with international headquarters in London, England. The company maintains partnerships with Aether Systems, Inktomi, Interwoven, InterNAP, Macromedia, SRI International and UUNET. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.aego.com or call 1-866-ALTEREGO.

Contacts:
Lucy Suros  or Mike Hulme
Switzer Communications AlterEgo Networks
(415) 945-7070 (650) 363-5534
lucy@switz.com or mhulme@aego.com

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