BoostWorks Unveils Powerful Enterprise Application Acceleration Appliance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2002 BoostEdge Provides Immediate Performance Improvements for Browser-Based Applications, Web Sites, E-mail, and FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to Traffic Via an Easy-to-Deploy Appliance BoostWorks, Inc., the leading provider of end-to-end enterprise application acceleration solutions, today announced BoostEdge, a powerful new integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. appliance designed to accelerate the end-to-end delivery of browser-based enterprise applications and Web content over wide-area networks Wide-area networks Communication networks that are regional, nationwide, or worldwide in geographic area, with a minimum distance typical of that between major metropolitan areas. Smaller networks include metropolitan and local-area networks. . Building on the company's industry-leading BoostWeb acceleration software, the BoostEdge hardware and software system accelerates the performance of business-critical browser-based applications, optimizes the delivery of Web content for remote and mobile users, increases transaction rates and enterprise user productivity, and reduces network traffic. Utilizing industry-standard hardware, BoostEdge is highly flexible and can be easily configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: to build dedicated optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. profiles targeting an application, a Web server, or a group of browsers or remote users. In addition, services supporting other application types can be easily activated within BoostEdge with minimal effort and with no interruption to existing services. Only BoostWorks' family of enterprise acceleration solutions dramatically improves application performance and employee productivity and reduces bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal by applying multiple, robust acceleration technologies, including visually lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. image optimization, real-time image conversion, object caching, protocol optimization, and adaptive text compression. "BoostWorks has taken its standards-based software solution to the next level by incorporating it into a network appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , giving our customers increased flexibility and ease of use," 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. "As a pre-integrated solution, BoostEdge is built to meet a variety of needs within diverse environments." Installed between the browsers and the application/Web servers, the BoostEdge appliance is transparent to both the browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used and the content server, requiring no configuration changes to either. It is a powerful and cost-effective solution for the most demanding enterprise environments, including enterprise-intranets, e-commerce, content Web sites, extranets, portals, and ASPs. BoostEdge features include: -- Real-time content acceleration: BoostEdge accelerates browser-based applications in real time, on-the-fly, object by object, reducing the bandwidth requirements for those pages. -- Transparent integration into existing networks: BoostEdge does not require any modifications to network routing, DNS, Web servers, application servers, or browser configurations. The appliance is fully transparent to both the applications and browsers. -- Real-time transaction selection: BoostEdge transparently intercepts transactions targeted to or originating from the accelerated application and/or Web server(s). -- Fail-safe operations: The appliance's switch-to-wire transition on any hardware or software disruption -- including power loss -- bridges server and browser transactions with no interruption in service. -- Web-based administration: Administration is handled through an easy-to-use Web interface that allows BoostEdge appliances to be remotely configured, managed and monitored. -- Standard 19-inch rack mount: BoostEdge is available in two models. The 1U BE500 is designed to be a single-application system. The 2U BE1000 is higher capacity and can accommodate an optional SSL accelerator PCI card and multiple services, such as e-mail, FTP, and other services. Both models are available with HTTP acceleration and industry-standard OpenSSL software to manage secure traffic (HTTPS). Pricing and Availability Available now, BoostEdge pricing starts at $20,500. Please visit www.boostworks.com or call 1-888-98-BOOST for more information. About BoostWorks BoostWorks, the leading provider of solutions designed to accelerate the end-to-end delivery of browser-based application data over wide-area networks, offers a suite of products for intra-enterprise and customer- and supplier-facing applications, including BoostEdge, BoostWeb, BoostVT and BoostSQL. BoostWorks' cost-effective, easy-to-deploy products dramatically improve application performance and reduce bandwidth requirements through intelligent discovery, optimization, caching, and delivery. BoostWorks products are used by a broad spectrum of more than 300 global customers, including The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , ChevronTexaco, AlloCine, France Telecom, and Silitek. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif., BoostWorks is a global company with European offices in France, and sales offices in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and the Philippines. For more information, please visit www.boostworks.com. |
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