October 27, 2003
Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc. (ICT) announced today that ICT and Toshiba Europe GmbH has signed a distribution agreement for ICT's data acceleration product, AcceleNet™, to enable high speed wireless and remote data services for the Enterprise market. AcceleNet enables broadband like speed performance on dial up and wireless data networks using advanced compression and protocol optimization techniques. These techniques dramatically reduce the time it takes individual users to browse the Web, download Email and attachments and transfer corporate files - all while maintaining data integrity.
"Customers are demanding truly high speed access to data over today's existing narrowband networks and we wanted to be sure we licensed the best performing product on the market, which is clearly AcceleNet" said Joerg Steinbeck, Manager Mobile Solutions of TOSHIBA Europe GmbH. "AcceleNet" he added " provides our customers the competitive advantage with increased productivity and reduced communications costs. Toshiba certified the solution for its MAGNIA Z Series Servers and offers the whole solution "out of box " via our certified reseller partners, thereby reducing the setup time to below one working day.
TOSHIBA Europe GmbH is offering AcceleNet within its "Mobile Net Lifestyle" initiative to provide broadband like speeds and compressed data transfers on wireless data and dial up 56k modem networks. AcceleNet provides significantly faster download and upload speeds for email with attachments, web browsing and file transfer applications to TOSHIBA Europe GmbH customers.
According to Carlo Chiavaroli, VP Sales for ICT, "We are delighted that TOSHIBA has chosen ICT's AcceleNet as a supporting technology for its "Mobile Net Lifestyle initiative." He added "We recognize the demanding needs of enterprise customers and are pleased to be recognized by a leading provider like TOSHIBA as providing the leading product in the acceleration category."
About Intelligent Compression Technologies
Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc., a privately held company located in Quincy, MA, provides web acceleration, internet acceleration, email acceleration and wireless acceleration software for enterprise, ISPs and wireless carriers. ICT's AcceleNet™ accelerator enables wide-area wireless networks (i.e. 2G/2.5G/3G), dial-up 56kbps lines and satellite to operate at Broadband like speeds, enabling accelerated access to Email with attachments, corporate applications, Intranets and the Web. ICT also licenses compression software to OEMs, which dramatically shrinks Microsoft Office™ files, XML data and common web images to enable faster file transfers, software delivery and reduced storage capacity. Visit us at www.accelenet.com.
About Toshiba
The Computer Systems Division of Toshiba Europe GmbH is a leading vendor for mobile computing solutions. In addition to notebooks, the company offers servers and PDAs in Europe, Middle East and Africa under the Toshiba brand name. Headquartered in Neuss, Germany, the Computer Systems Division of Toshiba Europe GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toshiba Corporation, the world's eighth-largest computer and electronics company. Toshiba Corporation is a leader in information and communications systems, electronic components, consumer products and power systems. The company's integration of these wide-ranging capabilities assures its position as an innovator in advanced components, products and systems. Toshiba has more than 166,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of over US$47 billion (2003).
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