Post Group Selects FastSoft to Accelerate Internet Transmissions
Leading Post Production Company Reports 13x Increase In Video Transfer Speeds Using Single-Box Tool
MONROVIA, CA – June 4, 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 Hollywood-based Post Group (www.postgroup.com) has selected FastSoft’s flagship product to accelerate the transmission of the large videos that partners, suppliers, and customers download daily. The Post Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary as one of Hollywood’s leading post-production providers. The Hollywood-based facility has grown from a single edit suite into one of the largest post houses in the world. The Post Group’s trailblazing philosophy led the company into the world of digital effects for film, including work for Apollo 13, Independence Day, and Titanic. The company currently provides Hi Definition services to hit television series “House”, “Numb3rs”, and “CSI” as well as providing online assembly, visual effects, encoding, and digital distribution services for clients globally.
“Because of the nature of our work, we won’t use compression,” says Post Group CIO Darin Harris. “That makes sending multi-gigabit files online very difficult because it can take hours to send information that people need instantly. We needed a way to send our work to anywhere in the world in a much shorter timeframe. That’s why we turned to FastSoft.” According to Harris, the FastSoft tool is speeding up the transmission of files by more than 1300 percent. “FastSoft is making a significant impact in how we transmit out large files to our partners, colleagues and customers. We looked at other solutions, but selected FastSoft not only because of the speed improvements, but because it allows multiple users to accelerate outbound transmissions at the same time. That means that the people we send files to don’t need to have a matching box, or any special software, to speed up the arriving data. They simply receive the information as they always have – it’s just a lot faster.”
FastSoft uses award-winning, patent-pending Internet acceleration technology to help companies in manufacturing, telecommunications, and media/entertainment increase revenues and productivity, and decrease costs. In today’s broadband-powered world, the transfer of large files is seriously hindered by TCP, the protocol that governs more than 90% of Internet traffic. Companies that depend on the transfer of large files, including video, audio, graphics and design, lose valuable time and productivity waiting for data to download. FastSoft’s flagship product line is creating tangible financial benefits by empowering organizations to realize the full capacity of their Internet connections by bypassing the TCP protocol with a “single-box” tool that does not require any hardware or software on the receiving end.
Dr. Steven Low, CEO of FastSoft, says, “We developed our Internet accelerators to help companies improve their productivity by taking full advantage of their Internet connections. The Post Group is a perfect example of a company that relies on the transfer of large files to a diverse recipient list that has no special hardware or software, and we are proud that we’ve been able to help them maximize their efficiency by facilitating their transmissions.”
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.