AderoWorld will let customers replicate part or all of their Web site content on servers in 19 countries, including South Africa, Australia and Italy. Adero is equipping its data centers, which will reside in 30 countries by year-end, with Sun servers running Inktomi's Traffic Server and WebSpective's caching and tracking software. Adero is dividing its 19 networked data centers into five regions. Customers can choose to have their content cached in just one region, or all five. Customers that subscribe to the AderoWorld service simply need to make a change to their Domain Name System that will allow the server to replicate its content onto AderoWorld's Web servers around the world.
Users access the replicated data locally via a Web browser.
Users can also opt to go with a service provider that specializes in caching and replication services, such as Sandpiper Networks, Sky-Cache, and now Adero. N.Y. Competitors such as Exodus and Sandpiper have more of a domestic focus when it comes to caching and replicating Web content. Adero says that while the Internet in the U.S. has its fair share of bottlenecks, the Internet overseas typically has more. Latency in international markets is huge compared with the U.S., Naik says. It's not uncommon for users in some areas of Europe to wait 5 to 6 seconds for one page to load, he says.