The company was founded in 1996 and has 2000 customers. In the first quarter of 2001, the company launched HydraGPS, which figures out in advance the route a packet of data should take across the Internet based on size, content and the performance of the network. The company claims its accelerator usually compresses page size by two-thirds and changes the HTML and images so that they render more quickly in particular browsers. It was founded in 1996 and completed its Nasdaq IPO in 1999. It also monitors databases for relevant data changes to ensure data in the cache is up to date.
Traffic is routed to the most suitable nodes, accorded to workload or proximity.
The Nasdaq-listed company is growing fast. It claims this speeds web transactions up by a factor of four. The company is privately funded. It uses massively parallel processing techniques to distribute tasks to up to 1,000 servers at a time. Privately held and, early in 2001, negotiating for venture capital.