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OT: New Cisco CTE transforms Web site content for wireless devices
http://www.ciscoworldmagazine.com/newsflash2/2001/08/01_cte.shtml

Cisco's new CTE 1400 Series Content Transformation Engine, introduced Wednesday, will automatically adapt a customer's Web site content for wireless devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.

With the new Cisco CTE appliance, set to be available later this month, all a company has to do is set rules for how standard HTML or XML Web content should be transformed for specific types of client devices (i.e., WAP phones, Palm PDAs, Pocket PCs, etc.) Once it is set up, the CTE appliance, which takes up one unit on a standard rack, will automatically convert Web site content when a wireless device seeks to access it. The CTE functions as a reverse-proxy, acting as a Web server to the client device and as a client device to the Web server.

Based on technology from WebUnwired Inc., the Cisco CTE can be easily and quickly installed into any network infrastructure without requiring any changes to existing hardware or back-end software. This is not true of software-based solutions that perform the same function as the CTE, Cisco officials said. Each Cisco CTE supports up to 10,000 simultaneous users and 1,400 concurrent active sessions per unit. Users can scale upward for increased performance and redundancy by including additional Cisco CTEs.

List price for the Cisco CTE 1400 Series Content Transformation Engine 1400 is $69,995.