Business Services Industry
Saab Selects Fourelle's Venturi to Optimize Bandwidth on Satellite Network
Business Wire, July 16, 1998
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(AutomotiveWire)--July 16, 1998--
Complete Bandwidth Solution Will Improve Performance and Reduce
Latency on Domestic Dealership Intranet
Fourelle Systems, Inc. today announced that Saab Cars USA has chosen its Venturi solution for optimizing bandwidth.
Venturi is a Compression/Caching solution that yields the most cost-effective performance improvement over wide area Internet links, including wireless networks.
With a retail network of 220 dealerships and 20 service points, Saab Cars USA recently began developing an intranet-based Retailer Information System (IRIS). IRIS blends browser technology with AS/400 host processes via a middleware layer of Lotus Domino and Java.
This application is centrally distributed to retail site clients via TCP/IP over a dedicated, high-bandwidth satellite network. However, some incompatibilities between TCP/IP and the satellite network led Saab to Fourelle's Venturi in order to improve performance.
Venturi is perfectly positioned to provide dramatic improvements in throughput on satellite networks," said Patrick Glenn, CEO and Chairman of Fourelle Systems. "By significantly reducing the amount of data transmitted, performance is increased while costs are decreased." Glenn added, "We're extremely proud that Saab has chosen Venturi to enhance its retailer network connectivity."
"Venturi's unique combination of Intelligent Compression(TM), caching, and Intelligent Flow Control(TM) technologies makes it the product of choice for improving the overall performance of our retailer intranet," said John F. Jacobs, Manager of Retailer and Field Information Systems at Saab USA.
"Our initial testing across the satellite network revealed severe latency and bandwidth constrictions, but Venturi immediately alleviated those problems. With Venturi implemented, the data traveling across our network is compressed by over 60%, which gives us much faster response times and saves us money."
"Venturi's reliable UDP transport eliminates the latency problems found in using TCP over a satellite network," said Bob Smith, President and CTO of Fourelle Systems. "Furthermore, Venturi prevents TCP's `Slow Start' mechanism from slowing down Internet data over the satellite link. We believe that Venturi will greatly increase the efficiency of the Saab retailer network."
Many companies have introduced products that address Internet/intranet bandwidth optimization and performance issues with either data compression, caching, or flow control alone. However, Fourelle is the first and only company offering a complete solution combining all three technologies.
About Fourelle Systems
Fourelle Systems, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, provides patent-pending Intelligent Compression, high-speed, multi-level caching, and Intelligent Flow Control technologies that offer a greater, more economical utilization of existing Internet infrastructure resources. With its Venturi products, Fourelle enables Internet and intranet users to access networks in the most bandwidth- and cost-efficient manner possible. For more information, please call 408/565-9100, or visit http://www.fourelle.com.
About Saab Cars USA
Saab Cars USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saab Automobile AB, a fifty percent joint venture between General Motors Europe and the Swedish investment group Investor. Headquartered in Norcross, Ga.,it is the exclusive U.S. importer and distributor of Saab automobiles.
Saab automobiles, the Saab 9-5 premium sedan and the 9-3 5-door, coupe and convertible, provide consumers with exceptional levels of performance, safety and technical innovation through such world firsts as the asymmetrically turbocharged V-6 engine, active head restraints and power ventilated seats. For more information please call 800/438-7222 or visit http://www.saabusa.com.
Note to Editors: Company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Fourelle Systems, Inc.
Martha L. Garcia, 408/565-9100
or
Saab Cars USA, Inc
John F. Jacobs, 770/279-6473
- 5 Rules for Immediate Annuities
- Death in the Family: 12 Things to Do Now
- Dumbest Things You Do With Your Money
- 6 Online Networking Mistakes to Avoid
- 401(k) Mistakes to Avoid
- 5 Economic Scenarios to Keep You Up at Night
- The Real ‘Best Places to Retire’
- Best Credit Cards for You
- 12 Tough Questions to Ask Your Parents
- The Real ‘Best Colleges’
- Home Buyer Tax Credit: How to Cash In
- Why You Shouldn't Bash Cash
- 8 Phony 'Bargains' and Better Alternatives
- Danger: 3 Debit Card Scams to Avoid
- 6 Myths About Gas Mileage
- 29 Fees We Hate Most
- Quick and Easy Ways to Boost Returns
- Best Stocks to Buy Now
- Lower Your Taxes: 10 Moves to Make Now
- New Jobs: 8 Lessons from Real-Life Career Switchers
- The New Job Market: Who Wins and Who Loses?
- Health Care Reform's Public Option: Everything You Need to Know
- Volunteer Work When Unemployed: Should You Work for Free?
- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Long-Term-Care Insurance: 4 Biggest Risks to Avoid
Content provided in partnership with
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
Presented by American Express