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FastSoft to Accelerate US-Asia Web Traffic for Pacific Internet Exchange

Single-Box Tool Developed at Caltech Accelerates Intercontinental Transmissions by a Factor of 30

MONROVIA, CA – July 10, 2007—FastSoft Inc. (fastsoft.com), a Southern California-based company that develops products that accelerate the transfer of data over the Internet, today announced that it has successfully deployed its Aria tool to Pacific Internet Exchange LLC (www.pie.us), a wholesale bandwidth and collocation services company that provides fiber optic bandwidth connecting North America and Asia.

As a result of high hosting costs in Asia, Pacific Internet Exchange (PIE) specializes in hosting Japanese Web sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. In order to overcome the lag associated with transferring large files over such a large distance, the company was searching for a way to boost the speed of its connections. “Data speeds overseas to Asia are slowed down by latency, distance and congestion going into Asia, like a line forming at customs,” says David Grieshaber, President of PIE. “We realized that we could provide better service to our customers if we had a way to accelerate our Internet connection to Asia. The Aria box gave us a way to speed up our connections without having to reconfigure our network, meaning that end users in Asia do not need to have a second box, or any software, to receive high-speed transfers of data.”

In today’s broadband-powered world, the transfer of large files is seriously hindered by TCP, a 20-year-old protocol that governs more than 90% of Internet traffic. Companies that rely on PIE lose valuable time and productivity waiting for data to download. FastSoft’s flagship Aria product line, a single-box tool built on award-winning technology developed at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is allowing PIE to fix the TCP protocol and dramatically improve its data distribution speeds.

“The results that we’ve gotten have been amazing,” according to Grieshaber. “We’re seeing our connections to Sapporo, Japan, increasing by a factor of 30, and into Tokyo speeds are eight to ten times faster. It’s really improved how we do business in our core market.”

“One of the major advantages of the FastSoft technology is that it does not require recipients of large files to have a hardware or software client,” says Dr. Steven Low, CEO of FastSoft. “This is an ideal solution for Pacific Internet Exchange, which uses our Aria product to send large files over long distances to thousands of end users in Asia. This simply wouldn’t be feasible with a two-box solution.”

About FastSoft
FastSoft, Inc. (www.fastsoft.com) is a privately funded start-up company based in the Los Angeles area. Its patent-pending FastTCP technology was developed at The California Institute of Technology’s networking laboratory (Netlab). The company’s mission is to generate significant business benefit for companies that depend on the transfer of large files by radically improving the speed and quality of data transfer over the Web.