LinuxPlanet: Netli Adds App-Level SSL To Ultra High Speed Network
Nov 17, 2003, 23:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jacqueline Emigh)
"At Comdex this week, Netli will announce the addition of
hardware-based application-level acceleration and encryption for
Web sites that use its Linux-enabled NetLightning high speed
Internet overlay network. The three-year-old Silicon Valley
start-up will also make an official rollout of four more blue-chip
customers: Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix, and Scholastic
Publishing.
"Accomplished through a deal with nCipher, the new
application-level Secure Socket Layer (SSL) option is geared mainly
to Web portals operated by government, financial, and medical
organizations, said Willie M. Tejada, vice president of marketing
and business development, during a pre-briefing with
LinuxPlanet.
"To reduce network latency, particularly over long distances,
Netlightning uses transport protocols developed inhouse--in place
of traditional HTTP and TCP--between its network endpoints..."
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