American Digital Network Implements QoS Broker to Enable Geographic Server Distribution;.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1998-- Leading Strategic Internet Services Firm Relies on IPivot for Fast, Bulletproof Refers to extremely stable hardware and/or software that cannot be brought down no matter what unusual conditions arise. See industrial strength. bulletproof - Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly , Next Generation Server Management Solution American Digital Network (ADN ADN Anchorage Daily News (Alaska newspaper) ADN Yemen (international vehicle registration) ADN Ácido Desoxirribonucleico ADN Acide Désoxyribonucléique (French: DNA) ), a leading strategic Internet services firm, has selected QoS Broker(TM) from IPivot Inc. to provide geographic high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and prioritized delivery for its expanding network of hosted server facilities across 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. . The announcement was made at Summer Internet World in Chicago. QoS Broker is a flexible server management solution that transparently distributes requests across geographically dispersed servers. User requests are directed to the topologically closest available server, as determined by the client and server locations, reducing response times and bandwidth costs. "As we build server farms all over the country, geographic high availability is essential for us," said Tom Byrnes, chief technology officer for ADN. "QoS Broker allows us to provide a unified view of a customer's Web site regardless of where the servers are located and how widely the data is distributed. Users see a single virtual server for the entire network. One simple domain name address gives them access to everything they need, and with QoS Broker they get the data fast and reliably." QoS Broker gives ADN's customers a new level of fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and failover through full system redundancy. If a router, server or even a QoS Broker fails anywhere in the ADN network, requests are automatically routed to another network resource. "Installing QoS Broker is an important milestone for ADN as it expands its server network nationwide," said Brett Helm, president and chief executive officer of IPivot. "Businesses that host their Internet and intranet Web sites with ADN are now assured that their data can be easily and quickly accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year." ADN and its customers will also benefit from QoS Broker's ability to assign priority levels to different classes of service and set target response times for each class. This allows companies to give the best network service to their highest priority users. QoS Broker continually measures the response times of each class of service group and assigns incoming requests to the server that can fulfill those requests within the pre-defined response time. If the response time exceeds the pre-defined threshold, requests designated as high priority receive preference over those of lower priority. "In the future, ADN plans to use QoS Broker for mail services including things like SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. , POP and IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol brokering. This will allow our customers to have transparent DNS names for their mail servers so that mail can be reached from anywhere regardless of local network topology See topology. ," Byrnes added. "Before implementing QoS Broker we tested other bridged systems like Cisco's LocalDirector and found that the IPivot system scaled much better. There was nothing else that performed as well. QoS Broker gives us the competitive advantage that we need to provide advanced server management capabilities to our current clients and expand our business by attracting new network customers in new markets," Byrnes explained. Company Information Founded in June 1995, American Digital Network (ADN) is a leading strategic Internet services firm. ADN is unique in that it offers businesses a single source for all of the services and products necessary to develop and implement state-of-the-art E-commerce, Web, Internet, intranet, extranet, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , and network strategies. ADN has forged strategic relationships with leading technology companies such as IPivot, Bay Networks, 3COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Sun Microsystems, Axent, Microsoft, AT&T and Time Warner to deliver state-of-the-art Internet solutions. More information about ADN is available at www.adnc.net. IPivot Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide quality of service (QoS) solutions for multi-server IP networks. Funded by leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Enterprise Partners and Doll Capital Management, IPivot has a management team that combines years of experience in the networking and Web marketplace. IPivot's headquarters are located in Poway, Calif., a suburb of San Diego. For more information call toll-free 877/347-4868, email info@ipivot.com or visit the company's Web site at www.ipivot.com. IPivot and QoS Broker are trademarks of IPivot Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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