AlterEgo Networks Inc. wants all devices to be treated equal. To that end, the company introduced its line of Adaptive Network Servers designed to enable enterprises to extend applications and content to wired and wireless users regardless of device type, data source, network connection or geographic connection.
“Content proliferation is a big problem, and companies will be producing more content in the future, not less,” said David Downing, vice president of marketing for AlterEgo. “Companies need consistency across formats.”
AlterEgo’s family of servers begins with its Content Adaptation Server 2.0, the “first piece of the puzzle,” according to Downing. CAS enables enterprises to unify disparate content formats into an enterprisewide standard. Based on AlterEgo’s patent-pending Adaptive Performance Engine, an Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Stylesheet Language-based dynamic run time engine, CAS is deployed in front of an enterprise’s existing back-end applications and adapts the content presentation formats to the desired formats as specified in the XSLT templates.
For companies looking to add mobile device support to CAS, AlterEgo offers its Mobile Web Server 2.0 as an upgrade, designed to enable optimization of applications to a variety of mobile devices and microbrowser formats. AlterEgo said MWS integrates Inktomi Traffic Server, allows detection of current and future mobile device types and bandwidth and geographic location detection of mobile device users.
For businesses looking to offer value-added services such as alerts, notifications, messaging, e-mail and calendaring, as well as personalized views on a per device, per bandwidth granularity, AlterEgo is offering its Adaptive Portal Server as an add-on only product for either the CAS or MWS. The Adaptive Portal Server also can be integrated with third-party Web portals and personalization engines.
The final piece of AlterEgo’s Adaptive Performance Suite is its Adaptive Hub, designed to enable businesses to integrate disparate deployments of MWS and CAS within the enterprise into an integrated and managed distributed network. AlterEgo said the solution leverages the core technology the company has field-tested in its Adaptive Network Service.
“We have spent a lot of time in the past hyping the mobile Internet, but we have decided to take a step back and re-evaluate that,” Downing said. “Right now 95 percent of businesses are still distributing information to their employees through the wired Internet, but we want to provide a progressive access point allowing access through both the wired and wireless Internet.”
Downing noted the company’s Content Adaptation Server, Mobile Web Server and Adaptive Hub were available now on a per CPU basis, with the Adaptive Portal scheduled for availability during the second quarter.
