Strangeloop Brings Google SPDY to Site Optimizer (Linux Powered!)

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 15, 2011

“Google’s SPDY protocol is all about accelerating the web, with
one major caveat. SPDY only works with Google’s Chrome browser.
SPDY also benefits from SPDY protocol support on web servers, which
is where a new offering from site optimization vendor Strangeloop
comes into play.

“The SPDY optimization reside on Strangeloop’s site optimizer
appliances which leverage Linux as the underlying operating
system.

“We implement a proxy that speaks SPDY to the Chrome browser and
http to the server,” Strangeloop President, Joshua Bixby said.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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