| Globally-spread Internet users
with DAP on their desktops
balance load across the entire World Wide Web
Haifa, Israel, October 1, 2001. – SpeedBit
Ltd. today announced that 30 million users have registered
for Download Accelerator Plus (DAP), its popular
platform for delivery of rich media content over the
Internet, since the program was first introduced 23
months ago. DAP enhances reliable delivery of
software, music, games, movies and videos over the Web,
speeding the process by as much as 200% to 400% according
to users' comments and professional reviews. DAP
achieved its popularity strictly by word of mouth and
user recommendations, resulting in 60,000 to 70,000
users who opt-in and register the program every day.
DAP’s delivery platform is extensively used
by its vast user base, delivering 8 to 9 million files
per day for a total of about 3 billion downloads so
far. DAP's popularity is further attested to
by its ranking for the past year and a half among CNET's
top PC downloads. It may be freely downloaded from the
SpeedBit website (www.speedbit.com).
Accelerated Content Delivery with Distributed Load
Balancing
DAP achieves highly accelerated content delivery
by first detecting mirror servers that host the requested
file, and then performing a client-side optimization,
checking in real-time the responsiveness of the available
servers from each user's perspective, and finally initiating
a multi-connection multi-server download process. This
effects an efficient balancing of the load among available
servers across the entire World Wide Web, and reduces
download times for users while allowing them to receive
maximum benefit from their available bandwidth.
“By insuring that each user will obtain the files he
wants from the most responsive servers for his or her
location, DAP contributes to the distribution
of the load among all available servers. The more globally
spread the user base, the more effective the load balancing,"
said SpeedBit Co-founder and CTO Idan Feigenbaum.
Cooperation with SpeedBit
Content owners and content delivery networks (CDNs)
can easily benefit from cooperation with SpeedBit which
will allow them to make sure users are directed to the
most appropriate servers at any given time, thereby
solving their last mile problem. DAP is also a boon
for services such as video-on-demand, online music subscriptions,
and delivery of other rich media content. Its persistent
presence on the user's desktop enables such providers
to proactively maintain contact with users for periods
greatly exceeding those characterizing conventional
browsing.
SpeedBit attains profitability
SpeedBit investor Yossi Vardi, who was also a founding
investor of ICQ (acquired by AOL in 1999), points out:
"DAP's tremendous popularity enabled us
to secure increased content promotion revenues, which,
combined with the June launch of a fee-based version
of DAP with a richer feature set and enhanced functionality,
resulted in SpeedBit's turning profitable in Q3/2001.
In view of the current economic trends, particularly
with reference to Internet related services and software,
this is an exceptional achievement," concluded
Vardi.
About SpeedBit
Founded at the end of 1999, SpeedBit is a privately
held company with headquarters in Haifa, Israel. STI
Ventures, an international early-stage investment company,
with an emphasis on Israeli technology, together with
Yossi Vardi and company founders Idan and Yerach Feigenbaum
are the key investors in SpeedBit. Strategic investors
in STI Ventures are Softbank, Comverse Technology and
Pacific Capital Group.
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