NetCognition
recently announced the release of its first product, SiteAccelerator, which
enables developers to dramatically improve the speed of their Web sites.
The product is based upon NetCognition’s patent pending technology, which
combines a statistical prediction engine with a “pre-fetching agent” to use
idle bandwidth to download un-viewed pages to users machines.
SiteAccelerator was officially launched at Fall Internet World in NYC. The
product offers developers an easy way to accelerate their Web sites. An
entire site can be upgraded in this fashion in as little as 15 minutes,
while the waiting time for users is dramatically shortened.
According to NetCognition CEO Eitan Ron, “…we can accelerate Web sites in
the range of 2-5 times of what they are currently running at and it is an
end-to-end acceleration and not just solving a local bottleneck. Our
product differs from existing acceleration technologies and is not based on
compression, quality of service or hardware-based technologies.”
The product retails for $495, and can be downloaded for free until Oct. 31,
1998 from the NetCognition Web site.