AllSoldOut.com Adds E-Commerce to Web Performance Market Capabilities.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ROCKVILLE Rockville, city (1990 pop. 44,835), seat of Montgomery co., W central Md., a NW suburb of Washington, D.C.; settled c.1760s, inc. as a city 1860. It has several scientific research and technology laboratories that focus on the aerospace, electronics, nuclear energy, , Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000 New "TurboQ" software first to handle flash traffic for E-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. sites AllSoldOut.com, the Internet's first online ticketing community, is transforming the $4.5 billion web performance market with TurboQ, a patent-pending software solution to E-commerce flash traffic problems. Up to now, leading web performance companies like Akamai (Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, www.akamai.com) A company that provides Internet content delivery with guaranteed performance using its own worldwide network. Founded in 1998 by a group of MIT scientists and Internet professionals, Akamai licensed routing algorithms developed , Inktomi (Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA, www.inktomi.com) A company that specializes in high-performance software for Internet service providers (ISPs), carriers and large Web sites. , Digital Island and Exodus Exodus (ĕk`sədəs), book of the Bible, 2d of the 5 books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. The book continues the story of the ancestors of Israel in Egypt, now grown in number to a large landless have been unable to solve flash traffic that occurs at the purchase point of an E-commerce transaction. Where web performance companies can handle massive amounts of traffic for a server, they cannot sort or order those clients as they approach the most important point of an E-commerce site: the transaction. "What TurboQ brings to the web performance market is unmatched," said Harold Kraft, president of AllSoldOut.com. "Providing flash traffic protection to the E-commerce portion of high traffic websites has phenomenal potential to improve these sites' bottom lines." "AllSoldOut.com originally intended TurboQ to facilitate flash traffic related to ticket delivery sites such as Ticketmaster and Tickets.com. We soon learned that due to a high degree of scalability, online brokerages such as Etrade and virtually any high-traffic E-commerce site could benefit from this technology." Currently, customers who attempt to use the transaction portion of an overloaded o·ver·load tr.v. o·ver·load·ed, o·ver·load·ing, o·ver·loads To load too heavily. n. An excessive load. Adj. 1. web server are served haphazardly or, in many cases, not at all. TurboQ provides a method for placing flash traffic "on hold," and manages the timing and order of transaction server access. The result is that high traffic will never prevent or interfere with potential transactions. TurboQ allows customers to be served in an orderly orderly /or·der·ly/ (or´der-le) an attendant in a hospital who works under the direction of a nurse. or·der·ly n. An attendant in a hospital. fashion and, since the entire queuing The process of lining up events in the order you want them processed. Whether it refers to packets in an IP network that search for the most optimal path to their destination, or telephone callers sitting in a "hold queue" waiting to be answered, queuing means the same thing: deciding on process runs on the visitor's PC, 99 percent of the processor burden is removed from the host site. In essence, TurboQ works with current web performance products to distribute the flash traffic processing among each client machine that is trying to use the server. Additionally, TurboQ's unique architecture allows it to be of use to a number of markets, including enterprise server hardware and software manufacturers, ASPs, and large E-commerce sites. AllSoldOut.com is the Internet's only online ticketing community and a leading developer of the web's only E-commerce flash traffic solution, TurboQ. TurboQ is the only scalable solution for an unlimited amount of flash traffic at E-commerce transaction points. |
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