Venation, a network performance and content delivery company, has launched the beta version of its V-WEB
web acceleration and content delivery solution.
A partnership between Compaq Computers and Packeteer has produced Compaq Dynamic Content Accelerator --
Web acceleration software that is reportedly increasing the speed of distance learning by about 500 percent.
We've noticed recently how
web acceleration and navigation tools have been quietly 'morphing' into web marketing tools over the past few quarters.
Both devices use DataWind's
web acceleration technology to deliver fast internet browsing via the UbiSurfer browser.
The Dune Group, is leveraging Level 3's Site Transformer, part of the Level 3
Web Acceleration product suite, to enhance the OMNI-channel retail environment.
Web acceleration software company FastSoft Inc announced on Monday that its E Series origin content acceleration appliance now supports Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6).
Propel Software, an innovator in
Web acceleration, was founded in November 1999 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who also founded Web search engine and portal Infoseek (acquired by Walt Disney Company), authoring and publishing developer Frame Technology (acquired by Adobe Systems) and computer peripheral pioneer Mouse Systems Corporation.
Web acceleration may in the past have been about making the web faster in a pure velocity sense, using advanced caching and so on, but now web accelerators tend to be predominantly marketing tools designed to make it easier for users to go back to the same few core sites over and over again.