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Asankya Partners With CarahsoftATLANTA, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Asankya today announced that it has partnered with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a trusted government IT solutions provider, to market and sell its Asankya RAPIDnet(TM) Application Delivery Network (ADN) service to government and military markets through Carahsoft's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090603/LA26593LOGO) The unique ability of Asankya's RAPIDnet to securely accelerate encrypted traffic of applications over the Internet makes it an ideal solution for government entities. By partnering with Carahsoft, Asankya RAPIDnet will be available for purchase by public sector customers through the Carahsoft GSA Schedule 70 (No. GS-35F-0131R). "As one of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies, Asankya provides innovative technologies to support the U.S. Intelligence Community making it a natural fit among our product offerings," said Craig P. Abod, Carahsoft president. "We are pleased to partner with Asankya to proactively offer its Application Delivery Network to meet the needs of all federal, state and local agencies working with applications over the Internet." "We have been working exclusively with the U.S. Intelligence Community for more than two years, enabling the efficient delivery of their mission-critical applications," said Asankya co-founder and CEO Scott Ryan. "By partnering with Carahsoft, we are able to offer our Asankya RAPIDnet capabilities to all government agencies. Whether accessing information in the field or between agency sites, the fast and secure movement of data is critical to federal missions. Asankya is the only solution that optimizes encrypted, two-way application traffic, making it a must-have solution for government entities." About Asankya's RAPIDnet Application Delivery Network Asankya's RAPIDnet is the premier Application Delivery Network service for secure, high-speed delivery of Internet-based applications. The breakthrough Asankya RAPID Protocol uses multiple pathways across the Internet to deliver up to 40x improvements in throughput while maintaining the security, availability and global consistency that today's applications require. This enables customers to take advantage of public cloud economics while preserving the secure, high-speed benefits of private dedicated networks. Asankya's RAPIDnet is the only application delivery service that accelerates encrypted traffic, optimizes bi-directionally, and improves the performance of both TCP- and UDP-based applications. The RAPID Protocol, the cornerstone of Asankya's RAPIDnet, is a breakthrough parallel networking technology that solves transport inefficiencies inherent in TCP, increases throughput across the Internet by using multiple pathways, and reduces network load by removing duplicate packets. The research leading to RAPID was initially funded by the National Science Foundation, developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and first utilized by the U.S. Intelligence Community. About Carahsoft Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, combining technological expertise with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process to help federal, state and local government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft is the largest government partner and serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors. The company's dedicated Solutions Divisions support proactive sales, marketing and delivery of Symantec, Storage Solutions, VMware, Adobe, Open Source, HR, HP Software, Intelligence, and SAP. For more information, visit http://www.carahsoft.com/. About Asankya (http://www.asankya.com/) Asankya is the cloud acceleration company delivering high-speed performance for dynamic Internet applications. The company's RAPIDnet Application Delivery Network is utilized by leading SaaS companies, cloud storage providers, private enterprise cloud users and key government entities. Asankya is venture-backed by Veritas Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel, Seraph Group, Georgia Research Alliance and Ridgewood Advisors. Asankya is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. CONTACT AGENCY: CONTACT CLIENT: Judy Smith Tabetha Motes JPR Communications Marketing Manager 818-884-8282 404-961-7630 [email protected] [email protected] Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090603/LA26593LOGOhttp://photoarchive.ap.org/PRN Photo Desk, [email protected] Asankya CONTACT: Tabetha Motes, Marketing Manager of Asankya, +1-404-961-7630,[email protected]; or Judy Smith of JPR Communications, +1-818-884-8282,[email protected], for Asankya Web Site: http://www.asankya.com/http://www.carahsoft.com/ |