Aether Systems and Alterego Networks Launch Airloom- First Complete Wireless Internet Adaptation and Delivery Service.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers OWINGS MILLS, Md. & REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sept. 11, 2000 New Service Rapidly Adapts and Delivers Enterprise and Consumer Content to All Wireless Devices Over Highly Scalable, Reliable Network Platform Aether Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: AETH) and AlterEgo Networks, two leading providers of wireless Internet products and services, today announced the immediate availability of a new web-to-wireless service, AirLoom(TM), featuring rapid deployment, cost-effective pricing and reliable network performance. AirLoom is the industry's first end-to-end adaptation and delivery solution for extending enterprise and consumer content, applications and services to the full range of wireless devices including web-enabled phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and two-way pagers. AirLoom (www.airloom.com) provides the fastest, simplest and most reliable solution for businesses to deliver content, communications and commerce to an increasingly mobile marketplace, enabling businesses to tap the enormous potential of the wireless Internet. The service is completely outsourced; requiring customers to do nothing other than determine the content they wish to optimize for wireless devices. "Any serious plan for mobilizing enterprise and web content has to include the delivery infrastructure and carrier connection," said Mark Plakias, Vice President, Voice and Wireless for The Kelsey Group, a leading e-commerce research company. "The partnership between Aether and AlterEgo marks a new phase in the evolution of wireless Internet, passing from the experimentation stage to production-quality, highly-available deployments. This is an autobahn for the mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. ." AirLoom, which combines AlterEgo's adaptation technology and nationwide high-performance delivery network with Aether's expertise in wireless products and services for the enterprise market, extends content, services and applications from such sources as business intranets and content portals to any type of wireless device. Components of the AirLoom service include: - HTML content and image adaptation - Delivery of content over dedicated, scalable Internet and wireless network - Optimization for every wireless device, form factor and network bandwidth - Ongoing support and management of network performance and availability, device-level monitoring and routing optimization "AirLoom provides businesses with a simple, complete solution that removes the chaos and barriers of today's wireless web," said Aether Chairman 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. David S. Oros. "Together, Aether and AlterEgo uniquely address quality-of-service, speed-to-market, scalability and adaptation issues with a team that can support all of an enterprise's wireless needs. AirLoom provides an excellent opportunity for businesses to evaluate the benefits of the wireless web at a low cost before migrating to more advanced wireless solutions, such as custom applications." AlterEgo and Aether will install a dedicated, high-speed data link between AlterEgo's Adaptive Network and Aether's network operations center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ), which is directly connected to the major U.S. wireless carriers. This link provides even further performance advantages and faster data delivery for wireless users. "The AirLoom service moves beyond simple adaptation to address the critical delivery and performance needs of enterprises and consumer Internet businesses. This service fills a gaping void in today's wireless market for high-performance, reliable delivery of content and services," said Richard Ling, CEO of AlterEgo Networks. "We've created the first solution to truly marry the Internet and wireless, offering businesses a complete solution for putting crucial enterprise applications, e-commerce operations and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. into the hands of mobile users." AirLoom Pricing and Availability AirLoom service is currently available. AirLoom wireless web experts perform content adaptation Content Adaptation is the action of transforming content to adapt to device capabilities. Content adaptation is usually related to mobile devices that require special handling because of their limited computational power, small screen size and constrained keyboard functionality. and design at no cost to the customer. Customers are charged only a fixed monthly fee for access to AlterEgo's high-performance delivery network. Significant promotional pricing is now available for a limited time. For more information on pricing, product specifications or to contact a company representative, visit www.airloom.com. Terra Networks Terra Networks, S. A., usually referred to as "Terra", is an Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain. Part of Telefónica Group (the former Spain's public telephone monopoly and now one of the most important telecommunications companies in the world), Terra , the leading Spanish web The Spanish web in circus performances involves a long, cloth covered rope with a loop attached near the top that a performer climbs and inserts either their foot or their wrist into the loop. portal, has signed on as one AirLoom's initial customers. "Wireless is an explosive market segment but content remains at the core," said Alex Dresser, Vice President of Terra Networks. "The AirLoom service offers us a rapidly deployable and affordable opportunity to enhance our value to our customers. In addition, we have the ability, through Aether and AlterEgo, to migrate to custom wireless applications." AirLoom Service Offering Leveraging AlterEgo's AEgo Designer(TM), a graphical "drag-and-drop" tool for HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. to XML/XSL conversion, AirLoom designers identify specific content and formatting rules for mobile device outputs and publish these rules to AlterEgo's nationwide network. As mobile users access information and services, data is drawn from the source and dynamically adapted based on these rules to virtually any type of wireless language and device. AlterEgo's content delivery network is a nine-node network collocated with InterNAP, a high-quality network that brings new levels of performance by circumventing the congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and latency of the public Internet. AlterEgo's scalable network provides unprecedented performance for wireless Internet access See how to access the Internet. , improving the performance of the wireless web and providing the reliability needed for business-critical enterprise and e-commerce applications. About Aether Systems Aether Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of wireless and mobile data products and services allowing real-time communications and transactions across a full range of devices and networks. Using its engineering expertise, the ScoutWare family of products including the Aether Intelligent Messaging An earlier messaging system from Banyan Systems that ran on NetWare and VINES servers and incorporated Banyan's popular Streettalk directory service. It included a basic mail program, which could be upgraded to the more advanced BeyondMail system. See ePresence. (AIM) software platform, and its network operations center and customer care center, Aether seeks to provide comprehensive, technology-independent wireless and mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings solutions. Aether develops and delivers wireless data services across a variety of industries and market segments in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and internationally. For more information, please visit www.aethersytems.com. About AlterEgo Networks AlterEgo is a network infrastructure company building a more intelligent internet to simplify the delivery of Web content and enterprise applications to any type of wireless or wired net access device. The company offers a family of outsourced services tailored to address the unique content adaptation and delivery needs of B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. content producers, enterprises, B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business exchanges and wireless carriers. All services are powered by the AlterEgo Adaptive Network, a fault-tolerant content delivery network operating nationwide across nine nodes. The Adaptive Network employs patent-pending technology and proprietary techniques for applying server clustering See clustering. and content caching to ensure customers a high degree of scalability, security and reliability. AlterEgo is based in Redwood City and maintains partnerships with Aether Systems, Inktomi, InterNAP and SRI International (company) SRI International - One of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjuction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, they later became fully independent and were incorporated as a non-profit organisation under U.S. . For more information, please visit our Web site at www.aego.com or call 1-866-ALTEREGO. This press release includes forward-looking statements based on current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions about Aether that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of Aether and AlterEgo to successfully work together to develop the AirLoom service described in this press release and the acceptance in the marketplace of the AirLoom service. These risks and other risk factors are described in Aether's report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. with respect to the fiscal year ending December 31, 1999 and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Aether undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. |
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