Lucent Technologies donates $10K to support Polygraph development.

Polyteam attends benchmarking meeting in NJ, organized by the Tolly Group and Network World magazine; we have tried (mostly successfully) to illustrate the advantages of Polygraph benchmarking model and to encourage vendors to use Polygraph for testing of L7- switches and similar products.

Second IRCache cache-off registrations are announced. About 24 products from 16 vendors are registered, but how many will actually come?

Polyteam hosts meeting to discuss benchmarking of L4 and L7 traffic redirection devices. Participants made good progress on defining the framework and workloads for the tests. The first ``switch-off'' is planned for Spring 2000.

Network Appliance donates $6K to support Polygraph development.

Polyteam announces DataComm results.

UCSD approves contract with Microsoft to attempt to port Web Polygraph to W2K.

Dell/ICS PolyMix-1 results from PolyLab tests are made public. This first large scale public benchmarking done in PolyLab generated a lot of interest and requests for more public and private tests.

Polygraph 2.0.0 is released.

Polyteam hosts organizational meeting for the second IRCache cache-off. Vendors decided to push the cache-off date to January 2000, arguing that at least two months are needed prepare products for the cache-off. FreeBSD's DummyNet feature will be used during the cache-off to simulate packet loss and delays and bandwidth limits.

Network Appliance donates $6K to support Polygraph development.

Watchdog thread started on Polygraph Web site with the review of Network Computing article.

Network Computing magazine publishes an article containing wrong performance analysis of four caches. The date is approximate; the article was dated May 31, 1999.

A shipment of 30 NLX PCs for PolyLab arrive.

Polygraph gets the first donation. Novell sponsors our benchmarking activities with a $12K check.

The first IRCache cache-off

The first software release (version 0.0p0).

Approximate start of the project.