That means selling servers. Compaq also intends to convince large companies to bring technology in-house, citing the fact that the Compaq Acceleration Server Technology has the potential to reduce traffic on the network by 2 to 4 times. Mass. It will initially be offered in conjunction with Compaq servers. The technology uses wavelet compression, a form of asymmetrical data compression that employs a highly intensive encoding scheme. However, decoding is fast and simple, enabling any computer running the plug-in to expand the compressed file.
Wavelet compression does have one minor drawback.
Like JPEG and GIF and most graphical compression models, a file that is compressed and then decompressed will lose some data in the process, and will not exactly match the end result. Compaq is working with ICE on producing compression algorithms for other kinds of data, including streamed data. This new technology emphasizes Compaq's new strategy of not only providing the hardware at the end of the network, but much of the hardware and technology in between. Building on a partnership with NetCentric, Compaq is attempting to standardize a way of enabling Internet service providers to charge for Internet services on a per-packet basis. All rights reserved.