BoostWorks Joins The Content Bridge Alliance; Leader in the Last Mile Delivery Of Web Content to Contribute to Content Peering Standards Efforts.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001 BoostWorks, the leading provider of server-based solutions Accelerating the Last Mile(tm) delivery of web content and application data, announced it has joined the Content Bridge(tm) Alliance as a Technical Advisory Member. BoostWorks will be among the leading technology and service providers working to enable the next generation of content distribution services. BoostWorks' contribution to the alliance is its knowledge and expertise in accelerating delivery of web content and applications to all last mile connections: wireless, dial-up and broadband. BoostWorks, as a member of the Content Bridge Alliance Technical Advisory Working Group, will collaborate with other technology, service and content providers on the development of standards and technologies to support cross-network content distribution. Initial areas of focus for this group include: -- Injection - Establishes common methods for content providers to communicate content updates to member networks -- Distribution - Defines methods to pass content updates between peer networks -- Accounting - Provides a common mechanism for collecting usage data and allocating revenue to member networks BoostWorks' participation in the alliance will help improve the response time and delivery of web content and applications to Internet end users. As the developer of software solutions offering cost-effective methods of improving end-to-end network performance, BoostWorks will assist in establishing standards for optimizing performance in the "last mile" delivery of content. "We are delighted to participate in the Content Bridge Alliance, the group defining the next generation of content distribution services for the Internet. As the leading provider of server-based products optimizing the delivery of web content over the last mile, we feel BoostWorks is uniquely qualified to contribute to the Content Bridge Alliance by helping to define and solve last-mile issues," said Vincent Titolo, 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. of BoostWorks. "The Content Bridge Alliance is pleased to welcome BoostWorks as a member of the Technical Advisory Working Group," said Peter Galvin, chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Content Bridge Alliance. "The contribution of BoostWorks' expertise in the last-mile delivery of content and applications will benefit the development of new standards for optimizing the performance of content delivery to Internet users worldwide." BoostWorks' flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BoostWeb(tm), is a server-based software solution significantly improving the response time and delivery of web site and application data to the end user. The performance enhancements result from BoostWorks' patent-pending Intelligent Network Acceleration (INA Ina (ē`nä), city (1990 pop. 60,062), Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural and industrial center with a famous agricultural school. (tm)) technology. Depending on the type of data and network speeds, BoostWeb reduces the size of the web content and application data by up to 95% and boosts the response time by up to 7-times. To see how BoostWeb can improve your web response time, using any URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , go to www.boostworks.com and access the free web performance evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return test. BoostWorks will be exhibiting at the Government Technology Conference (GTC GTC See: Good 'til cancelled order GTC See good-till-canceled order (GTC). ) in Sacramento, California “Sacramento” redirects here. For other uses, see Sacramento (disambiguation). Sacramento is the capital of the State of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. , May 16-18 in booth 1427. About Content Bridge Formed in August 2000, Content Bridge is an alliance that includes leading technology and network service providers. The Content Bridge Alliance provides a platform for cross-network content distribution, streamlining the link between content providers and content consumers. Current members include: Adero, Inc., Apogee Networks, Bandwiz, BoostWorks, Brix Networks, Ciprico, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. , Digital Island, Inc., Exodus Communications, Inc., Genuity, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Inktomi Corp., Intel Corporation, Madge.web N.V., Mirror Image Internet Inc., Nano, Nextra, Nortel Networks, Portal Software, Inc., SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , StorageNetworks, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Talarian, TrueSpectra, UltraDNS and Vignette Corp. For more information, access http://www.content-bridge.org. About BoostWorks BoostWorks provides a suite of server-based solutions ensuring optimal performance in the "last mile" delivery of web content and applications. Its flagship product, BoostWeb, provides the most cost effective method of improving end-to-end network performance for any kind of network - Internet, Intranet, or Extranet. BoostWorks is privately held and counts 300 enterprise, ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. , wireless, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers worldwide. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] with offices in Europe and Asia. For further information, please visit BoostWorks' web site at www.boostworks.com. Note to Editors: BoostWorks, BoostWeb, Accelerating the Last Mile and Intelligent Network Acceleration are trademarks of BoostWorks, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Content Bridge is a trademark of Inktomi Corporation in the United States and in other countries. |
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