Netli, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, launched a new service that provides accelerated transport and application level optimization for SSL applications while maintaining end-to-end security. NetLightning SSL increases speed and availability of applications by applying a variety of transport and application level optimization techniques while requiring no changes to server, client or application. Acting as an HTTPS proxy, NetLightning SSL securely delivers applications end-to-end while ensuring that no traffic in the clear is transmitted during any portion of the communications between clients and origin servers. NetLightning SSL was developed in conjunction with nCipher to provide FIPS 140-2 Level-3 validated security and meet HIPPA, government, and financial security regulations. Trans-continental tests have shown performance improvements of 3x with the NetLightning SSL service.
Netli also announced several customer wins. These companies are using the NetLightning service for customer support portals, e-commerce and consumer marketing applications:
- Tektronix -- for its Web-based customer support application
- The Boeing Company -- for MyBoeingFleet.com, which provides customers with a single point of entry to Boeing information and services
- Scholastic Publishing -- for standardized end user response times to the Scholastic.com portal for teachers and parents
- HP -- for the ePrime B2B e-commerceortal
- Netli's NetLightning service provides high availability, secure, transparent access to Web applications with global sub-second response times. The service is designed address the problems of performance and reliability for HTTP and SSL based Web applications while enabling consolidation to a single data center for global access. For full details see: http://www.convergedigest.com/Bandwidth/newnetworksarticle.asp?ID=7160
