August 16, 2002
Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc. (ICT) announced today that HMC Ltd, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Ohio, has become a customer of ICT's AcceleNet's managed acceleration service.
HMC, an ISP serving North Central Ohio, is using AcceleNet to provide broadband-like speeds on HMC's subscriber's dial-up 56kbps modem service. AcceleNet delivers an average of 2-3x faster web browsing and 5-6x faster email uploads and downloads on the typical subscriber's 56kbps modem service, and even provides acceleration as great as 8-10x depending on the content.
The AcceleNet service is hosted and managed by ICT, but marketed, billed and supported by HMC. In this arrangement, HMC subscribers are provided an account that enables them access to the AcceleNet service. When an HMC subscriber requests a web page or wants to download their email, the AcceleNet servers in ICT's data center fetch the web pages and emails, compress them using advanced compression technology and sends them to HMC's data center for delivery to the HMC subscribers. HMC subscribers to the AcceleNet service received a compressed version of the web pages and emails that they are downloading. The AcceleNet software that resides on the subscriber's computers expands the web pages and emails and presents it on their computers in its decompressed format.
According to Paul Henry, President of HMC, "While we've all seen the advertisements that say "Increase your speeds on the Internet by 200%..blah blah blah…we know that its almost all a bunch of hooey". "We chose AcceleNet", he added, "because our tests showed this to be a very good product and it would be attractive to anybody who doesn't want to pay the higher cost of DSL, Cable or Satellite Internet service".
"We are pleased to have HMC as a customer" said Mark Brandstein, VP Marketing and Business Development at ICT. "We are confident" he added "that HMC will greatly benefit from the additional revenue and service differentiation that AcceleNet will bring HMC in serving that region of Ohio".
About Intelligent Compression Technologies
Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc., a privately held company located in Quincy, MA, provides software compression and network acceleration products for the Communications, Internet, and Networking industries where data delivery speed over a relatively limited bandwidth is an issue. ICT's AcceleNet™ product enables wide-area wireless networks (i.e. 2G/2.5G) and dial-up 56kbps lines to operate at Broadband-like speeds, enabling fast remote 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 HMC Ltd.
HMC Ltd., located in Bellevue, Ohio, is North Central Ohio's #1 Internet Service Provider. HMC provides Dial-up and DSL Internet access along with email services, web hosting, long distance, web site creation, and e-learning courses. HMC Ltd. is a Registered Web Presence Provider for Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002. For more information please visit HMC at http://www.hmcltd.net.
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