SlipStream Technology Enables New Web Accelerator From Canada's Largest Communications Company
New service improves the Internet experience for Sympatico dial-up users
Waterloo, Ontario - April 14, 2005 - SlipStream Data Inc. today announced that its data compression and acceleration technology will power a new accelerated Internet dial-up service from Bell Canada, the country's largest communications company. The new Sympatico Dial-Up Accelerator delivers up to five times faster web browsing and email-downloading capabilities, which gives subscribers more choice and flexibility when selecting an Internet access package and results in a better online experience.
The Sympatico Dial-Up Accelerator service uses SlipStream SP software to compress data and send it over existing telephone phone lines. SlipStream's acceleration technologies compress, optimize and streamline web content and email, providing a dramatic performance boost to access speeds over any network. Subscribers do not need to add any equipment-the Sympatico Dial-Up Accelerator software is easy to install, runs seamlessly and doesn't alter any existing software.
"We are excited about partnering with a technology leader like Bell Canada," said Ron Neumann, president of SlipStream Data Inc. "The new Sympatico service gives us a stronger customer presence in Canada and strengthens our leadership of the accelerated dial market worldwide. This partnership also further demonstrates the universal need for faster web-browsing capabilities at an affordable price. This new service will improve and enrich the online experience for dial-up subscribers, which will in turn increase customer loyalty."
SlipStream is the defacto standard in the accelerated dial-up market, with over 1,000 customers worldwide. SlipStream's technology gives service providers a fast and flexible way of rolling out unique value-added services that can also be fully integrated with 3rd-party software-including filtering, parental control, security and privacy applications-empowering ISPs with the most flexible and comprehensive selection of services to improve the online experience for their subscribers.
For more information about Bell Canada's Sympatico Dial-Up Accelerator, visit www.bell.ca.
SlipStream's sophisticated acceleration technologies compress, optimize and streamline web content and email, providing a dramatic improvement in access speeds over any network. This technology gives Service Providers a fast and flexible way of rolling out the most comprehensive selection of value-added services to attract and retain customers.
About SlipStream Data
Founded in 2000 in Waterloo, ON, Canada, SlipStream Data Inc. is a privately-owned software development company that delivers on the need to increase the speed of Internet access-regardless of network connection-by providing unparalleled compression. SlipStream's acceleration technology is the fastest on the market, as confirmed by recent independent testing, accelerating access to web content and emails by as much as seven times. The company's primary customers are ISPs, ASPs, carriers and corporations, including United Online for their NetZero and Juno services, AOL Canada, Terra, IceNet and OnSpeed. For more information visit: http://www.slipstream.com.
*SlipStream is a registered trademark of SlipStream Data Inc.
For More Information:
Andre Fuochi
GCI Group for SlipStream Data
416-486-7227
afuochi@slipstream.com
Ron Neumann
SlipStream Data Inc.
519-886-6738, ext. 222
ronn@slipstream.com
SlipStream Data Inc. is a subsidiary