| Distributed totally by viral marketing
and growing at rate of about 50,000 new users per day,
it reached its 10 million users.
Haifa, November 12, 2000. - SpeedBit (www.SpeedBit.com)
today announced that its premiere product, Download
Accelerator Plus (DAP) has exceeded 10,000,000 registered
users - in 11 months - and is acquiring 1,000,000 additional
new users about every 20 days. Download Accelerator
Plus has been one of CNET's top most popular download
for PC for the last 11 months, another testimonial to
the huge interest Internet users have in downloading
software, music, games, movies and videos files.
DAP resides on the user's PC improving download speed
and reliability. Its persistent presence on the desktop
makes DAP a strong platform for digital content delivery
as well as additional services to the user.
Download Accelerator Plus users download millions of
rich media files every day, including software, games,
movies and music, making it one of the very top delivery
and distribution platforms for digital content.
Download Accelerator Plus Core Technology
Downloading files from the Internet is often
slow and disconnections occur from time to time in the
middle of the process, mainly due to traffic congestion.
While Broadband connection resolves such problems between
the user and ISP (the "Last Mile"), other bottlenecks
in the network between the ISP and the rest of the network
including remote download severs still prevail.
DAP core technology was developed to address these constraints,
improving web download speed and reliability, doing
so by several methods to achieve 200% to 400% faster
downloads, according to users and website reviews.
On the Internet the same file is hosted on numerous
mirror sites, such as at Universities and on ISP servers.
When a user begins downloading a file, DAP immediately
senses it, finds mirror sites and determines which mirrors
sites will be the fastest for the specific user location.
The file is then downloaded in portions via several
parallel connections and reassembled on the end user's
computer.
Download Accelerator
Plus Digital Content Delivery Platform
DAP's delivery platform will enable users to subscribe
to and receive content in a highly accelerated manner
according to their schedule preferences. When a user
opts-in for DAP's services, DAP gains a noninvasive
persistent presence at the user's PC, making it easier
for providers of rich media content to reach potential
subscribers. DAP transparency to various Digital Rights
Management (DRM) systems (such as InterTrust) allows
content providers to offer paid-for subscriptions.
About SpeedBit
SpeedBit was founded at the end of 1999 by a
young Israeli programmer, Idan Feigenbaum, and his father
Yerach. "I developed the precursor to DAP out of my
wish to experience faster and more reliable downloads,
and to fully utilize communication lines," said Idan.
"Today, DAP makes the perfect platform for delivering
rich media content. Our fast-growing user base is comprised
of frequent downloaders who are likely to be early adopters
of various digital content subscriptions," Idan concluded.
SpeedBit obtained funding from investors Yossi Vardi,
the founding investor of ICQ (which was sold to AOL),
and STI Ventures Group, which includes among its investors
Soft Bank, Comverse Technology and Pacific Capital Group.
"SpeedBit's growth rate is one of the fastest in the
history of the Internet. Download Accelerator Plus'
achievement is especially noteworthy since not one cent
has been invested in promoting the product. The product's
acceptance is due to its value for users, demonstrating
pure organic grassroots viral marketing and word-of-mouth
user recommendations," stressed Vardi. |
