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Netli strikes down app delays

InfoWorld, Scott Tyler Shafer: April 21, 2003

Hoping to speed the delivery of Web-based applications, Netli on Monday introduced a new service for vendors running transactional applications.

Netli, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up emerged from stealth mode on Monday with its NetLightning service that improves the time it takes to transmit a page requested from a Web application over a long distance.

"Web-based applications require quick response and have dynamic data behind them," said John Peters, CEO of Netli. "We're curing these problems with an environment that allows interactivity."

Peters explains that serving Web-based applications over a wide area often results in latency. This latency, he said, is due to the multiple back-and-forth requests coupled with the transmission of the objects that dynamically create the Web page end users receive upon requesting data from an application. He said Netli has dubbed this problem "distance-induced delay."

"The problem is not the first or last mile, but the middle mile," he said. Peters said the number of round trip transactions required to deliver a Web page causes delay and that is created by the interaction of TCP and HTTP protocols.

Netli's service, NetLightning, employs a number of servers running Netli's software in data centers worldwide and an Application Access Point (AAP) -- a device that resides on the customer premise near the application servers serving the particular Web application.

With the service, an end-user request will be routed to the nearest Netli server on the network and forward that request to the AAP over leased lines or fiber purchased by Netli. The AAP takes the request and sends it to the application server. It then awaits the results of the request and forwards all or most of the elements that make up the Web page back to the end-user via the Netli server in one trip -- thus reducing the latency.

Netli's approach differs from other technologies that attempt deliver large files to users across distances. For instance, Digital Fountain's Transpotter Fountain employs a technique that converts packets into smaller pieces that can be sent and rebuilt in any order, thereby speeding of the delivery of content, according to the company.