ANTARA.net Awarded Best Hardware Product at Gartner Group Event; FlameThrower Product Family -- Simple, Cost-Effective Stressing Solution Recognized as Best of Its Kind.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 ANTARA.net announced today that it was awarded "Best Hardware Product" at the recent EnterpriseVision event produced by Vision Events, a Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , Inc. company, on July 23-25 in Carlsbad, Calif. More than eighty systems integrators were involved in the focused and confidential evaluations that led to ANTARA.net's recognition by the leading companies in the enterprise business for providing the most advanced stressing solutions of network infrastructures and hardware vulnerabilities. "We are honored to have been recognized by our peers at a Gartner event," says Chuck Kolstad, ANTARA.net president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our FlameThrower flamethrower, mechanism for shooting a burning stream of liquid or semiliquid fuel at enemy troops or positions. Primitive types of flamethrowers, consisting of hollow tubes filled with burning coals, sulfur, or other materials, came into use as early as the 5th cent. (TM) product family is the only solution on the market that can show IT professionals exactly where their infrastructures will fail without having to deploy a massive conglomeration con·glom·er·a·tion n. 1. a. The act or process of conglomerating. b. The state of being conglomerated. 2. An accumulation of miscellaneous things. of PCs in time-consuming and frustrating step-by-step trials." FlameThrower stressing solutions replace expensive browser simulation software Simulation software is based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually running the program. and the need for tens or even hundreds of PCs that have to be set up, managed and maintained. In contrast to these costly and cumbersome methods, FlameThrower's single system approach provides a load emulation platform that is out-of-the-box, ready to use, compact and produces accurate and repeatable tests and results. Based on powerful fourth generation ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. technology, FlameThrower solutions deliver application traffic and security attack emulations capable of sustaining over 20,000,000 tcp connections. "Winning a Best of EnterpriseVision Award(TM) carries extra significance because the votes come directly from the industry's leading integrators and solution providers serving the enterprise market," said John Madden, event director for Vision Events. About ANTARA.net ANTARA.net designs, manufactures and markets comprehensive, intelligent application level network test solutions for network product manufacturers, IT professionals and service providers. ANTARA.net offers an easy and cost-effective means to deploy performance, functional and standards-based conformance testing Conformance testing or type testing is testing to determine whether a system meets some specified standard. To aid in this, many test procedures and test setups have been developed, either by the standard's maintainers or external organizations, specifically for from a single platform using a powerful ASIC architecture. ANTARA.net solutions provide users with a scalable means of testing eBusiness infrastructures at the application layer. Founded in 1998 by Vinod Bhardwaj, a pioneer in networking and creator of the first Ethernet switch A device that connects clients and servers to each other in an Ethernet network. See switched Ethernet. , ANTARA.net is headquartered in Campbell, California. For more information please visit www.ANTARA.net. |
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