Digital Island Announces ObjectSwitch as Customer, Enabling Accelerated Time to Market Worldwide.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1999-- Maker of Mission-Critical Telecommunications Application-Server Software Relies on Digital Island's Intelligent Network for Global Webcasts to Launch New Products Digital Island, a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications, announced today ObjectSwitch Corp. as a customer, to allow the high-end telecommunications application-server maker accelerated entry into new markets worldwide. ObjectSwitch uses Digital Island for, among other applications, quarterly multimedia Webcasts that reach existing and potential customers in the telecommunications industry in Europe, Northern Africa, and North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Digital Island delivers a superior online experience to high-tech executives participating in these Webcasts. In turn, Digital Island's greater reliability and performance help to reinforce ObjectSwitch's brand as a global supplier of mission-critical telecommunications application servers. "Our customers are in Telecommunications and Networking themselves," said Grover Righter, vice president of marketing at ObjectSwitch. "When we have a Webcast event, it must reach thousands of customers located all around the world with a very high quality of service. Digital Island has significantly improved performance in key markets, resulting in a higher quality online experience that enhances our corporate image." "Whether it's electronic software distribution, Webcasts or customer support, we have the expertise and technologies to add value to our customers' global e-Business initiatives," said Ruann F. Ernst, president 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 Digital Island. "Digital Island's reach and quality of service help our customers rapidly establish a commanding online presence." ObjectSwitch (http://www.objectswitch.com) is the provider of the ObjectSwitch Telecommunications Integration Server and the ObjectSwitch Transaction Application Server software products. These next-generation Software Fault Tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. server products are used by the Telecommunications industry and others requiring Change Tolerant, High Capacity, Transaction Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. , Network Reside applications that run on industry standard hardware such as Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT servers. Digital Island(R) is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications. Digital Island serves multinational companies that need to extend e-Business initiatives worldwide through an excellent customer online experience by securely and consistently delivering the right content, to the right customer, in the right market, at the right time. Digital Island offers innovative services and technologies for global content distribution and hosting, the localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. of online experiences, and reliable 24 X 7 global IP connectivity -- all of which are designed to leverage partners' and customers' e-Business applications today and tomorrow. Founded in 1995 in Honolulu, the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is 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 . http://www.digisle.net Note to Editors: Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Editors' Note: Background information and digital photo files on Digital Island can be found in the Digital Island Virtual Press Room, http://www.digisle.net/news/vpr, user name: media, password: access. |
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