Commerce Accelerator 1000 from IPivot Wins Best of Show Award At NetWorld + Interop 99 Las Vegas.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1999-- IPivot Receives Top Honors in the Network Security and Performance Category for New Product That Delivers up to 50-Times Performance Boost for E-Commerce Sites IPivot Inc., the company that "Makes E-Commerce Work," received a top award tonight at NetWorld + Interop 99 for its Commerce Accelerator 1000, a new product that eliminates server performance bottlenecks during secure SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. transactions, improving the overall performance of e-commerce sites by up to 50 times. The NetWorld+Interop judges and editors of Data Communications and Internet Week selected IPivot for the Best of Show Award in the category of Network Security and Performance. "IPivot is honored to be recognized as an innovator and leader by the experts who chronicle the most significant developments in the e-commerce industry," said Brett Helm, IPivot president and chief executive officer. "We see this award as an endorsement of our vision to accelerate the mass adoption of e-commerce by improving performance and reliability for secure transactions. Everyone who assisted in the development of the Commerce Accelerator 1000, from our engineers and marketing people to our investors and industry partners, share the credit for what we have achieved." The Commerce Accelerator 1000 The IPivot Commerce Accelerator 1000 is the first of a new breed of Internet Commerce Appliances (ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. ), that connect in-line between routers and servers to address the complex performance issues associated with processing secure transactions. By offloading encryption and decryption processing from the server to the Commerce Accelerator, secure transactions can be handled at wire speeds. Multiple Commerce Accelerators can be cascaded together to handle as many as 1,500 secure transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed . The Commerce Accelerator from IPivot complements the company's previously announced Internet Traffic Appliances (ITA ITA abbr. initial teaching alphabet ITA initial teaching alphabet: a partly phonetic alphabet used to teach reading ITA n abbr (BRIT) (= initial teaching alphabet) → ). Those include the Intelligent Broker family developed and marketed by IPivot and available from Nortel Networks as part of its Accelar Server Switch line. "Customer demand for our Accelar Internet Appliances, developed with IPivot, has exceeded our expectations," said Bert Armijo, director of product marketing at Nortel Networks. "We are enthusiastic about expanding our relationship with IPivot in this hot new category in order to offer our customers leading-edge, best-of-breed technologies to keep their e-commerce sites performing at an optimum level." Availability and Pricing The Commerce Accelerator 1000 is priced at $9,995 and is scheduled for shipment in June 1999. About NetWorld + Interop NetWorld + Interop provides networking, Internet and telecommunications professional buyers with a uniquely comprehensive forum for education and hands-on products and services in order to make critical purchase decisions. NetWorld + Interop affords buyers from enterprises, carrier/service providers and resellers/integrators the opportunity to experience live technology demonstrations first-hand. It's this focus on advanced, multi-vendor, multi-protocol, multi-service interoperability technology and solutions that makes NetWorld + Interop the definitive networking event. For more information about NetWorld + Interop 99 Las Vegas, visit www.interop.com. About IPivot IPivot Inc. "Makes E-Commerce Work" by delivering solutions that solve Internet performance and reliability problems thus enabling the mass adoption of Electronic Commerce. IPivot markets its innovative family of Internet Commerce Appliances and Internet Traffic Appliances through a network of premier resellers, network integrators and OEMs, including Nortel Networks, (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NT/TSE:NTL). IPivot products support Internet sites using servers from companies such as Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP), Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), and others. IPivot's products are also used with a variety of switches and routers, including those manufactured by Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Lucent (NYSE:LU) and 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ). IPivot is a charter member of QoS Forum, an international consortium of organizations devoted to end-to-end Quality of Service solutions. Other charter members include Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Extreme Networks (Nasdaq:EXTR), Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ), and Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). The company is located in Poway, Calif., near San Diego. For more information, call toll-free 877/347-4868 or visit http://www.ipivot.com. |
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