UK network equipment provider DBAM Systems has developed
a £2,000 network accelerator which, in independent tests, was able
to download compressed files 10,000 faster than normal
broadband.
A study published by Broadband Testing today found that the
DBAM Exbander Precision
device consistently achieved data transfer acceleration rates
averaging 10,000:1.
In the test,
Broadband Testing
assessed the speed to download a 120Mbyte Tar file using the
Exbander device, compared with ADSL. Although the ADSL download
attained a download speed of 53Kbps, the download conducted using
DBAM Exbander achieved 6.67 MBps.
Steve Broadhead, who runs Broadband testing, said, "Regardless
of the file type we transferred, from .tar archive/zip files to the
(already) very compressed MP3 and similar media file types, we
achieved data transfer acceleration rates averaging around
10,000:1
To achieve these download speeds, the company has applied
patented algorithms derived from mathematics to bandwidth
compression.
Broadhead said the Exbander appears to accelerate even heaviliy
compressed files, a task most bandwidth comrpession products find
very difficult.