Netcom Africa Limited Selects Stampede Technologies

Netcom Africa Limited, a leading communication infrastructure provider of satellite and wireless broadband solutions in western Africa, has selected the Stampede Application Acceleration Series™ WAN Optimization solution to improve bandwidth utilization and response times to its remote customers. With this solution, Netcom will be able to provide both single-sided (outbound only) acceleration, as well as two-sided bidirectional acceleration using Stampede’s clientless Acceleration On-Demand^® technology.

The Stampede Application Acceleration Series is a two-sided hardware/software acceleration solution (commonly referred to as a Software WAN Optimization Controller, or Soft WOC) for maximizing performance and bandwidth utilization of enterprise applications. Stampede’s Soft WOC approach employs performance-enhancing technologies such as TurboStreaming™ (for accelerating compressed or encrypted objects), SSL Client-side Termination (for accelerating SSL transactions), Intelligent Cache Differencing, Image Transformation, CIFS Acceleration, Connection Management and Load Balancing, providing significant performance enhancement. These optimization technologies support traditional HTTP/HTTPS, legacy TCP and the emerging Web 2.0/AJAX application environments. The Stampede solution accelerates a diverse population of end user devices, including those using Windows Mobile^®. In addition, Stampede’s Acceleration On-Demand^® client technology is the first client technology to be automatically injected into the responses sent to the end user, without the need to install software at the client.

“Stampede’s technology is a great solution for our environment, including an innovative bi-directional optimization solution that will improve our service to our customers,” said Yen Choi, Group Executive Vice President and CTO for Netcom Africa. “Also, Stampede has an excellent engineering team that worked hard with us during the evaluation process.”

“Stampede is pleased to welcome Netcom Africa to our family of customers,” said Gordon Dorworth, Stampede Technologies’ President and CEO. “The Internet Service Provide (ISP) market continues to be an area of growth for Stampede, especially for those ISPs in the VSAT arena. Our flexible deployment options, including our Acceleration On-Demand^® acceleration model, which provides industry leading 'clientless' asymmetrical acceleration, allow ISPs like Netcom to optimize their network traffic and provide an improved service offering to their customers.”