Belgium's Leading Newspapers Use Redline Networks Appliances to Boost Web Site Performance; Redline Web I/O Processors Raise Visitor Numbers and Improve Download Times.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004 S.A. IPM (1) (Impressions Per Minute) Generally refers to document scanners that scan both sides of the page at the same time. Thus, a scanner that scans at 100 ppm (pages per minute) can provide 200 ipm. See ppm and document scanner. , one of Belgium's leading media publishing companies, has deployed Redline red·line v. red·lined, red·lin·ing, red·lines v.intr. 1. To refuse home mortgages or home insurance to areas or neighborhoods deemed poor financial risks. 2. Networks' Web I/O processors to substantially increase performance on the Web sites of the country's two leading national newspapers, La Derniere Heure (www.dhnet.be) and La Libre Belgique La Libre Belgique (English: Free Belgium) is a Belgian newspaper in French. In Belgium, it can be roughly seen as an equivalent of Flemish De Standaard. The paper is widely perceived as pro-catholic. (www.lalibre.be). Since installation of the Redline appliance, the number of site visitors has set records and page-download times have improved dramatically, due to the offloading of processing capacity from the existing Web servers and the reduction in bandwidth now needed to accommodate site traffic. The Web sites for the La Derniere Heure and La Libre Belgique rank in the top five most-used French-language sites, with each receiving approximately 20,000 unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per day. Previously the two sites were unable to support the increasing volume of site traffic and page hits that they were attracting. Due to a bottleneck created around the database server, where too many processes from the Apache Web servers See Apache. would hit the database server simultaneously, response times slowed and limited site availability. To address this issue VAlain S.A., a Luxembourg-based Web development and consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , recommended Redline because of its multi-function platform and superior ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . Alain Fontaine, director of VAlain, said, "Redline offered a cost-effective and multi-function solution to address the Web site performance issues being faced by IPM. On the first Monday First Monday is a short-lived U.S. television drama centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Created by JAG creator Donald Bellisario, the show aired on CBS from January until May of 2002. that the appliance was installed, a new peak of unique visitors to both sites was reached because they were now able to cope with the heavy demand. Previously, it would have taken a user about one minute to download a homepage from one of the sites. Now it takes five to seven seconds." Patrick de Lannoy, multimedia manager at IPM, said, "We are delighted with the result and VAlain's recommendation of the Redline appliance. We can now deliver business continuity and performance for our online services at a fraction of the cost and effort that would have been incurred by using conventional solutions to provide the same results." Paul Gracie, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. sales director at Redline Networks, said, "Working with IPM and VAlain we have been able to demonstrate the power and functionality of our appliances to handle bandwidth and performance issues even in the most demanding and extreme Web environments." About IPM S.A. IPM (IPM) is one of Belgium's leading media publishing companies and news organizations, publishing two of the country's leading newspapers, La Derniere Heure and La Libre Belgique. It also has a range of smaller newspapers and news Web sites. About VAlain VAlain S.A. is a technology consultancy and Web site developer. It specializes in solutions built around LAMP -- Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. -- and provides full Web site design, architecture and management services. About Redline Networks Redline Networks designs and manufactures network appliances that maximize the performance, flexibility and scalability of Web-enabled enterprise data centers. The company's family of E/X enterprise application processors, deployed at corporate data centers, and T/X Web I/O processors, used by Web sites, enable users to control and customize any HTTP-based environment while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity. Redline is a privately-held company based in Campbell, Calif. For more information on Redline and its products, visit http://www.RedlineNetworks.com. |
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