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June 09, 2009
XE Selects Crescendo's AppBeat DC to Improve Performance of Global Currency Exchange Service
By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor
XE, a currency site, has selected Crescendo Networks’ AppBeat DC to improve the scalability, availability and performance of its global currency exchange service.
"We needed to upgrade our infrastructure to handle rapid growth in traffic while maintaining the performance and availability our customers and users require. We discovered AppBeat DC, with its innovative, hardware-based design that combines load balancing with advanced application acceleration features while operating at top speeds," said Beric Farmer, president of XE, in a statement.
Farmer said that Crescendo backed up its impressive technology with a first-rate, knowledgeable support team. By providing superior support along with high performance and rich functionality, Crescendo Networks (News - Alert) delivers real value, giving the company scalability for continued growth, he added.
XE is a provider of online foreign exchange tools and services and its web site is one of the top 500 worldwide.
Crescendo officials, while talking about AppBeat DC, said that it manages traffic based upon outstanding transactions, server load and health, always sending data to the least loaded server while exposing a single URL to the web as a whole.
Officials said that XE will now be able to offload SSL and TCP processing from servers to AppBeat DC, as well as compression for outbound traffic. With the boost in available capacity, the XE site can handle its growing traffic without performance degradation or problems.
“XE has built a dominant market position in foreign currency exchange services,” said Adoram Ga’ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks.
Ga’ash said that AppBeat DC can help them maintain this dominance even with rapid growth, by delivering optimal performance and availability even during traffic peaks.
Crescendo Networks is known for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, Web-enabled applications. The company claims that its unique application delivery architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure.
Earlier this month Crescendo Networks had announced that the Digital Times, one of Korea’s daily newspapers, is using AppBeat DC to ensure the performance, scalability and reliability of its online news service.
The Digital Times provides timely news on technology and economic issues to over one million daily visitors and 450 thousand loyal on-line members.
"We needed to upgrade our infrastructure to handle rapid growth in traffic while maintaining the performance and availability our customers and users require. We discovered AppBeat DC, with its innovative, hardware-based design that combines load balancing with advanced application acceleration features while operating at top speeds," said Beric Farmer, president of XE, in a statement.
Farmer said that Crescendo backed up its impressive technology with a first-rate, knowledgeable support team. By providing superior support along with high performance and rich functionality, Crescendo Networks (News - Alert) delivers real value, giving the company scalability for continued growth, he added.
XE is a provider of online foreign exchange tools and services and its web site is one of the top 500 worldwide.
Crescendo officials, while talking about AppBeat DC, said that it manages traffic based upon outstanding transactions, server load and health, always sending data to the least loaded server while exposing a single URL to the web as a whole.
Officials said that XE will now be able to offload SSL and TCP processing from servers to AppBeat DC, as well as compression for outbound traffic. With the boost in available capacity, the XE site can handle its growing traffic without performance degradation or problems.
“XE has built a dominant market position in foreign currency exchange services,” said Adoram Ga’ash, CEO of Crescendo Networks.
Ga’ash said that AppBeat DC can help them maintain this dominance even with rapid growth, by delivering optimal performance and availability even during traffic peaks.
Crescendo Networks is known for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, Web-enabled applications. The company claims that its unique application delivery architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure.
Earlier this month Crescendo Networks had announced that the Digital Times, one of Korea’s daily newspapers, is using AppBeat DC to ensure the performance, scalability and reliability of its online news service.
The Digital Times provides timely news on technology and economic issues to over one million daily visitors and 450 thousand loyal on-line members.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Patrick Barnard
