''Simple To Use As A Toaster'' Appliance Handles 800 Percent Web Traffic Spikes For Lifetime TV.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002 Redline red·line v. red·lined, red·lin·ing, red·lines v.intr. 1. To refuse home mortgages or home insurance to areas or neighborhoods deemed poor financial risks. 2. Networks, Inc., the pioneer in Web I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Acceleration technology, announced that Lifetime TV implemented Web I/O Acceleration at its popular Lifetime TV (www.lifetimetv.com) Internet site. "Redline Networks' T|X 2200 Web I/O Accelerators have enabled our site (lifetimetv.com) to handle traffic spikes of up to 800% - generated by our content partnerships with MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. - without any additional expense on bandwidth and server hardware," said Shobhit Kapoor, Lifetime TV's director of Internet technology. "It has helped us cut our outbound bandwidth consumption by 40%, and has proven to have a great ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by controlling our bandwidth costs." "The configuration and management is very simple. Redline Networks has really made a network appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything that is as simple to use as a toaster See intranet toaster and Video Toaster. (jargon) toaster - 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). ," continued Kapoor. "The T|X 2200 Web I/O Accelerator has increased our site capacity and performance. Our performance has been excellent since the introduction of the Redline Networks Accelerator, and has enabled us to deliver a great experience to our end-users. Our Keynote numbers have held steady at 99.9% or 100% since the introduction of the Redline Networks T|X 2200." "The TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. management feature of the Redline T|X 2200 was a definite attraction for us. Redline Networks' appliance accelerated more than 16,000 TCP connections while load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them only 100 TCP connections to and from our web servers, which significantly reduced the load on our servers" said Kapoor. Redline Networks' Web I/O Acceleration appliances do not require changes to existing web infrastructure or changes to web site content; installation can typically be carried out in less than an hour. Web I/O Accelerators sit in front of web and cache servers and eliminate server inefficiencies by managing web server I/O, and optimizing payload in real-time. This reduces bandwidth costs and creates a faster, less costly, higher performance data center. Web I/O Acceleration appliances speed dynamic, static, secure (SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. ) and clear content for both modem and broadband users. Users receive content much faster, even when the site's servers are under heavy load, capabilities no other acceleration device on the market can claim. About Redline Networks Redline Networks' patent-pending Web I/O Acceleration appliances enable companies to significantly accelerate download times and cut bandwidth costs while increasing the transaction capacity of their existing Web infrastructure. Deployed at sites worldwide, Redline's appliances offload I/O responsibility from web servers and caches and optimize content in real-time to speed download times and deliver radically improved performance, capacity and cost savings in the data center. Redline Networks' customers typically experience a Return on Investment (ROI) of less than three months. More information about Redline Networks and its products can be found at http://www.RedlineNetworks.com or by calling +1-408-369-3800 or toll-free in the USA at (877) 550-6420. Note to Editors: Redline Networks, The Redline Symbol, RedlineNetworks.com, and Real-Time Acceleration are trademarks of Redline Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. In the product name "T|X 2200" noted in this news release, there is a pipe symbol between the T and X. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. |
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