Gigabyte Express 5 Release
International Internet File Transfer for Windows NT, 2000, and 98 with RELIA™ Technology
Boulder, CO. - July 24, 2000 - Niwot Networks, Inc.; the performance leader in Internet file transfer software, is pleased to announce that its Gigabyte Express 5 for Windows NT, 2000, and 98 with RELIA™ Technology is available for demonstration. RELIA is a major breakthrough technology for international Internet file transfers. With 4 percent packet loss, and 2:1 compressible files, Gigabyte Express 5 with RELIA Technology is 23.5 times as fast as Windows NT FTP over the satellite Internet, 15 times as fast on the international Internet, and 10.3 times as fast on the national Internet.
Gigabyte Express 5 features:
- RELIA (Patent Pending) Technology-Enhances TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) to handle packet loss (also called congestion) and long delay (also called ping time or latency); your information gets through under harsh network conditions
- File Pipeline-Improves international multi-file transfers by sending multiple files without waiting for an acknowledgement for each file, 5 times as fast for large numbers of small files.
- Congestion Report-Reports counts of Packets Lost and Packets Sent for each direction separately.Helps you quantify and isolate network congestion.
- Advanced Scheduling-Provides unattended scheduled file transfers at specified times to specified destinations ; lets you sleep at night instead of babysitting file transfers.
- Link Rate Governor-Presets bandwidth consumption during file transfers; you limit how much of your Internet or intranet connection bandwidth is consumed by file transfers.
- On-the-Fly Compression- Stacker ™ (LZS Lossless Compression).
Niwot Networks' Gigabyte Express is a mission-critical, business-to-business bulk data transfer solution that replaces traditional File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Gigabyte Express was designed and optimized for unattended operation and reliable throughput over long distance and congested Internet and intranet connections. File transfer is peer-to-peer, with Gigabyte Express running at both the sending and receiving nodes. While making Gigabyte Express the fastest way to move files over the Internet, Niwot found that packet loss and delay on the Internet hobbles the performance of all Internet applications. This performance can be dramatically improved with Niwot's RELIA (Patent Pending) Technology.
RELIA™(Patent Pending) Technology
Niwot's RELIA™ Technology is an extension to TCP which adds redundant information that enables the receiver to reconstruct lost information without requiring the time delay of retransmission.
RELIA™ Technology also adds support of 32 bit window size. The first application to support RELIA is Niwot's Gigabyte Express for Windows 5.
RELIA™ Technology uses Large Window and Packet Recovery™ techniques to optimize throughput over the congested international and satellite Internet or intranets.
"Our customers have an Unfair Advantage", said Bill Gibson, Chief Technology Officer of Niwot Networks. "Faced with congestion at a network bottleneck,
RELIA™ Technology wins like a bulldozer competing in a traffic jam."
Historically, the Internet was made possible by the evolution of algorithms for making an unreliable data transport act reliably. The first of these was the Ethernet standard, where hardware retransmitted lost (collision) packets without software intervention. The second was TCP, where software detects corrupted or missing packets and takes responsibility for retransmission. RELIA technology is the logical next step for packet loss in longer delay situations, eliminating the need for retransmissions in most cases.
Single
user annual license
$795
Five user
annual license
$2895
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