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July 26, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Strategic Internet Investments Incorporated, today announced
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that Strategic Profits Inc. (strategicprofitsinc.com), is partnering with Telus (telus.com) to provide website
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development, eCRM customer support and PayPaq secure online payment services
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for the Telus BizEssentials suite of e-commerce products.
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“This partnership enables Telus to use the power of the Internet to deliver
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the best customizable and integrated e-commerce solutions available to
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Canadian businesses,” said Mark Schnarr, executive vice-president, Telus
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Ventures. “Focused on meeting the growing needs of small-to-medium-sized
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business customers, Telus is offering the BizEssentials suite of eCommerce
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products to make it easy and affordable for businesses to sell online.”
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“This is an example of our alliance in action,” says Darren Entwistle, President and CEO of Telus. “Through SPI, Telus is able to
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deliver affordable, high quality Web development services, responsive and
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knowledgeable customer support, and secure online payment processing to
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their small to medium-sized business customers.”
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SPI are providers of e-commerce and e-philanthropy solutions since 1994 and
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secure payment services since 1997.
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True to the nature of the open source movement, SolidSpeed has released the
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software for these new products via the Web, at http://www.fezhead.org.
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Solidspeed says their FEZ-Probester is easy to implement Web site
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performance measurement software that is embedded in a Web site’s HTML. It
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provides end-to-end measurement of Web site performance, that measures and
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reports actual user download times. Other Web measurement solutions attempt
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to simulate users, creating
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additional site load and failing to match the distribution of traffic for
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the site being measured.
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With SolidSpeed’s FEZ-Director, a global site selector, (or global load
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balancer), Web site administrators can implement multi-site versions of
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their site through mirroring, caching, and multi-homing. FEZ-Director is
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unique in that it offers a purely software-based site selection systems
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solution that runs on all flavors of UNIX and Windows and is easily
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installed, configured, maintained, and updated. As such, FEZ-Director is
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well suited for incorporation into 3rd party content server packages.
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FEZ-Director uses real-time measurements of latency and packet loss along
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with DNS and http redirection methods to direct users to the best of
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multiple Web site mirrors or caches.
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Zona Research recently reported that $4.6 billion per year is lost due to
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users abandoning slow Web sites. The Boston Group said that 48 percent of
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Web visitors would leave prematurely because a site is running too slow.
