Digital Fountain Introduces Transporter Fountain for Branch Offices and Transporter Fountain 2.1.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT Fremont (frē`mŏnt). 1 City (1990 pop. 173,339), Alameda co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1956. Long an agricultural center, with champagne vineyards founded (1870) by Leland Stanford, it still ships fruits and vegetables. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2003 Newest Member of Product Family Perfectly Tailored to Customers with Remote Locations Digital Fountain fountain, natural or artificially conveyed flow of water. In ancient Greece columnar shrines were built over springs and dedicated to deities or nymphs. In ancient Rome fountains fed by the great aqueduct system furnished water in the streets, in the villa gardens, , provider of the fastest, most predictable global data-delivery solutions, today announced an important addition to its growing line of Transporter Fountain products, the Transporter Fountain for Branch Offices. The newest member of the Transporter Fountain family is a lightweight, highly mobile appliance A stand-alone hardware device or software environment dedicated to a specific task. See hardware appliance and software appliance. that provides an easy, cost-efficient Adj. 1. cost-efficient - productive relative to the cost cost-effective efficient - being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas" way to send massive data files back and forth between a centrally located Transporter Fountain and a host of remote locations, such as branch offices, small offices, regional hubs, and mobile locations like movie shoots and field sites. Digital Fountain also announced today version 2.1 of its 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. line with key new features, including compression and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. , for Transporter Fountain models 500, 1000, and 3000. Transporter Fountain for Branch Offices and Transporter Fountain version 2.1 will be available next week. Transporter Branch is ideally suited to enterprises that have offices in disparate locations but do not want the expense of deploying a full-scale full-scale adj. 1. Of actual or full size; not reduced: a full-scale model. 2. Employing all resources; not limited or partial: Transporter Fountain in each location. Not only is Transporter Branch a cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. alternative, it is easy to deploy. Transporter Branch can sit comfortably on any desktop without having to be mounted on a rack. Moreover, it obviates the need for software to be installed on multiple servers or individual PCs. Transporter Branch also comes in a rugged, portable version that can be easily carried from location to location and deployed anywhere in the field. "We are extremely proud to round out our product family with the introduction of Transporter Branch," says Cliff Meltzer, 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 Digital Fountain. "We now have a complete product line that offers undeniable benefits to any organization, large or small. Transporter Branch allows mission-critical data to seamlessly flow through all parts of an organization in the fastest, safest and most cost-effective manner possible. Customers can deploy our products broadly across the enterprise, thus allowing field locations and remote offices to enjoy the same level of quick and predictable data delivery as the corporate headquarters." Transporter Branch is an ideal solution for a wide range of companies, such as high-tech firms that have to transport engineering files back and forth between, headquarters in Silicon Valley and regional offices throughout the world. Transporter Branch is also well suited for media companies that must send digital dailies from remote shooting locations across the globe to post-production facilities and studio executives back in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . "We are constantly shooting movie and television projects in remote locations," says Al Foitag, Chief Network Architect at a major Hollywood studio. "We needed a flexible, light-weight and portable solution that could support high-speed, bi-directional transfers of large digital files. That's exactly the solution we found with Transporter Branch." Transporter Fountain Version 2.1 Key Features Digital Fountain's latest announcement of new features to version 2.1 applies to its entire flagship Transporter Fountain product line, including Transporter Fountain models 500, 1000, 3000 and Transporter Branch. These enhancements include: 1. Automatic Compression: Transporter Fountain can now automatically detect the compressibility com·press·i·ble adj. That can be compressed: compressible packing materials; a compressible box. com·press of source data and perform on-the-fly compression -- as well as decompression decompression /de·com·pres·sion/ (de?kom-presh´un) removal of pressure, especially from deep-sea divers and caisson workers to prevent bends, and from persons ascending to great heights. at the receiving end. This critical feature also means faster speeds and shorter delivery times. Previous versions of the Transporter Fountain delivered data 3 to 30 times faster than conventional systems. Now, thanks to automatic compression, data can be delivered 3 to 120 times faster. 2. Powerful Encryption: Transporter Fountain now incorporates secure IPSEC communications, which means the product provides all the benefits of VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. communications at a much lower overall cost. 3. Directory Batch Transport: This feature automatically groups a set of files into a single transfer to minimize overhead processing. Files are automatically separated again upon receipt and saved. The customer benefit is a short transfer time comparable to transferring a single file of equivalent size to the total content of the directory. About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain provides the fastest, most predictable global data-delivery solutions. The company's technology allows customers to realize dramatically increased data transfer speeds and predictable data delivery times resulting in significant savings in both time and expenditures. Digital Fountain's products are based on the company's patented Meta-Content(TM) technology, a networking innovation that dramatically simplifies the processes required to completely and perfectly deliver data over any network, regardless of impairments like packet loss and delay. Digital Fountain products are currently being used by a who's who Who’s Who biographical dictionary of notable living people. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 922] See : Fame of media, technology, oil & gas, retail firms and government agencies to transport their mission critical files. For more information call 510-284-1400, email press@digitalfountain.com or visit www.digitalfountain.com. |
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