SlipStream technology helps major ISP achieve success with accelerated dial-up Internet access.More than 400,000 paying subscribers at September 30, 2003 now using United Online's accelerated dial-up services An information service on demand. The term was popular when analog modems were the only way to connect to a remote system. See dial-up. SlipStream Data SlipStream Data Inc. is a software development company located in the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle in Waterloo, Ontario. In July 2006, SlipStream was acquired by Research In Motion (RIM) and is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of RIM. Inc. recently announced that more than 400,000 paying subscribers from United Online Inc.'s (Nasdaq:UNTD) NetZero and Juno Internet access See how to access the Internet. brands are using accelerated dial-up services enabled by SlipStream's technology. In April 2003, United Online, the nation's leading provider of value-priced Internet access through its NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet consumer brands, launched two accelerated dial-up services- NetZero HiSpeed and Juno SpeedBand. At September 30, 2003 these accelerated dial-up users accounted for approximately 15 percent of United Online's total 2.7 million paid subscribers. "SlipStream's sophisticated technology was instrumental to the successful launch of NetZero HiSpeed and Juno SpeedBand," said Gerald J. Popek, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition and chief technology officer. "Our high standards for quality service were key to this success, and SlipStream's accelerated dial-up technologies helped us ensure that those high standards were maintained." SlipStream's web accelerator Software that speeds up the retrieval of Web pages. Anticipating that you might click a link on the current page, it downloads the linked pages in the background. Most of these utilities require nothing more than your browser, while others require a counterpart component in the server. technologies compress, optimize and streamline web content after it leaves the server, providing a dramatic improvement in web-surfing speed, which is important for dial-up users who either don't have access to high-speed cable or DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary services, or don't want to pay the higher prices charged for broadband services. Customers surfing the Internet with these technologies will find that web pages download up to five times faster than traditional dialup. "United Online has proven to be a key customer win for SlipStream To fix a bug or add enhancements to software without identifying such inclusions by creating a new version number. because they have been responsible for defining this market segment," said Ron Neumann, president of SlipStream Data. "United Online was one of the first ISPs who understood how our technology could be a real enabler and differentiator of dial-up services." It is estimated that two-thirds of the approximately 70 million US households with Internet access today use dial-up connections. Over the next four years, the total Internet access market in the US is expected to grow to more than 80 million households, with approximately 45% still using dial-up connections. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion