Amplify.net Inks Partnership with Mitsui & Co. in Japan; Aggressive Plan to Jointly Market Amplify's Multi-Homed WAN Gateways to Carriers & Service Providers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2004 Amplify.net, Inc. ("Amplify"), the leader in affordable business continuity solutions over broadband, today announced that it has established a partnership with Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a major trading & full-service industrial development conglomerate, to jointly market Amplify's iSurfJanus ("Janus") Family of Multi-homed WAN Gateways to national & regional carriers and service providers throughout Japan. Japan's Broadband Revolution: Sparkling Network Migration Trend "Japan's current Broadband Revolution has sparked a corporate network migration trend in recent months. We are witnessing a growing movement in business enterprises to add high-speed but low cost broadband alongside legacy leased lines A private communications channel leased from a common carrier. Most digital lines require four wires (two pairs) for full-duplex transmission. (communications, networking) leased line to expand their corporate network capacity while fortifying reliability and redundancy for business continuity," said Pauline Lo Alker, President & 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. of Amplify. "Multi-homing over Broadband has become an industry standard as the way to configure a virtual private network over multiple private and public broadband links." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Point Topic, a UK market research company tracking broadband installations, of the over 55 million DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary subscriptions worldwide at the end of September 2003, Japan remained the leading country in terms of total number of lines. Multi-Homing Over Broadband: High-Value Business Services "In response to growing demands to add broadband to corporate networks, carriers and service providers are all preparing to offer new multi-homing services to their corporate customers," said Masaaki Hoshikuma, General Manager of Mitsui's Business Solution Department, Telecommunication Business Division. "Amplify's Janus WAN Gateways are well-known in the telecommunication community in Japan as the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. vehicle to bundle multiple WAN lines for offering multi-homed services via dynamic 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 across multiple Internet routes. We plan to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. our long-term relationships with all the national and regional carriers and service providers in Japan to aggressively market Amplify's solutions to these partners." In 2003, several major carriers and service providers for various broadband integration and bundling services, including NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform EAST, JENS CORPORATION (a subsidiary of Japan Telecom), NTTPC Communications (a NTT GROUP COMPANY), and KCOM KCOM Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (a subsidiary of KDDI), have adopted Amplify's Janus Multi-Homed WAN Gateways. Customers subscribing to these services are now enjoying total network redundancy optimized bandwidth utilization and enhanced access throughput at a highly affordable one-time cost, or at monthly service charge without experiencing complicated installation and maintenance procedures. In addition to Japan, Amplify's iSurfJanus family is successfully installed in customer sites throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. About Amplify. net, Inc. http://www.amplifynet.com Amplify.net develops affordable business continuity solutions for mid- to large enterprises with multiple branch sites as well as small businesses. Its solutions facilitate a non-stop network environment that is fail safe, resilient and secured with predictable traffic flow. About Mitsui & Co. Ltd. http://www.mitsui.co.jp/tkabz/english/index.html |
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