TORONTO, April 18, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Telesis (CDNX:TNC) (OTCBB:TNCVF), a leading developer and marketer of data acceleration software, today announced that Fuji Trading Co., Ltd. (Fuji Trading), a supplier of stores and foodstuffs to merchant ships around the world, has added Telesis' INTERSITE Accelerator(tm) solution to its existing portfolio of Telesis products to better meet the messaging needs of its corporate users.
Fuji Trading, founded in 1953, has expanded and diversified into new markets, supplying offshore drilling equipment, machinery and technology. Using Telesis' Mobile Mail Accelerator(tm) (formerly known as OnAir MOBILE(tm)) for the past two years, Fuji Trading offers its global customers a cost-effective and reliable solution for satellite and cellular remote mail transfer. With the addition of INTERSITE Accelerator, Fuji Trading connects its growing number of passenger ship customers around the world with data acceleration technology between the shore and the ships.
The current agreement between Telesis and Fuji Trading extends the two companies' long-term relationship established as a result of the success at Fuji Trading with Mobile Mail Accelerator, where Fuji Trading's customers experience data transfer and email speed improvements of up to 10-fold over traditional communication technology.
INTERSITE Accelerator is an inter-site mail connector that reduces network connect time between multiple sites of Microsoft Exchange, thereby speeding up mail transfer. It is co-located with the Microsoft Exchange Server, providing data reduction and compression over an optimized network link providing full duplex and error correction, whether wireless or wired. INTERSITE Accelerator improves the performance of the wide-area network, simplifying WAN configuration (compared to other connectors) with ease of installation and supporting all security and authentication methods. Providing an efficient solution for high latency, expensive communication networks, INTERSITE Accelerator reduces costly transmission times. The addition of the INTERSITE Accelerator to Fuji Trading's product offering will now enable more efficient and reliable communication for their maritime customers who require a number of mailboxes on board and for global enterprises.
"Fuji Trading has been offering managed messaging and data communications services using Telesis' core products since 2000, and we are pleased that their customer base is growing so rapidly," said Derek Woods, CEO of Telesis. "INTERSITE Accelerator complements their existing offering for passenger ships and those needing a number of mailboxes, and we look forward to adding further value to their communication software solutions."
About Telesis
Founded in 1989, Telesis North Communications Inc. ("Telesis") (CDNX:TNC) (OTCBB:TNCVF) develops and markets data acceleration software for wireless and landline networks. The Company's core product, OVERDRIVE(tm), allows ISPs and wireless carriers to accelerate the effective performance of their networks by up to 10 times, resulting in cost savings and greater customer satisfaction. For accessing email, the Web, or any corporate application, Telesis "makes data move faster." Telesis is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a regional office in the United Kingdom. The Telesis Web site can be found at www.telesis.ca.
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