CyberIQ Systems aims high

Loh Chyi Jen
New Straits Times
09-06-2000
CyberIQ Systems aims high
Byline: Loh Chyi Jen
Edition: 2*
Section: News & Analysis
Memo: (STF) - CyberIQ Systems is targeting 20 per cent market share in Southeast Asia for Internet traffic management solutions.

US-based CyberIQ Systems, provider of Internet traffic and e-site resource management solutions, is confident of acquiring 20 per cent market share and marking the No.2 position in Southeast Asia for Internet traffic management solutions. Its current market share is less than one per cent in Southeast Asia, 60 per cent in Asia and 40 per cent in the US.

CyberIQ Systems' competitors in this region include Alteon and F5 Networks who currently have 25 per cent of market share each in Southeast Asia.
Song May Wah, managing director for Asean/South Asia at CyberIQ Systems, informs Business Computing that by September, the company hopes to close some deals which is valued at US$80,000 with a multimedia and potential ISP in Malaysia.

According to Song, South Asia is expected to account for about 10 per cent of the total company revenue within one and a half years. Last year, CyberIQ Systems' product revenue amounted to over US$4 million.

According to Akio Sakamoto, chairman of CyberIQ Systems, the company is also looking to acquire investors in Singapore to further penetrate the regional market.

He hopes to achieve this by November. As to how much of investments CyberIQ Systems is targeting is uncertain, but Sakamoto foresees it to be a substantial amount.

In March, the company had secured US$20 million in funding from a total of US$55 million offered by investors from the US, France, Japan and Korea. CyberIQ Systems has developed partnerships with companies such as Lucent Technologies and Network Peripherals Incorporated (NPI).

CyberIQ Systems is targeting its products at e-business environments, enterprises that have sufficient traffic flow, as well as banking and financial institutions that are time and security critical.

Its major customers are Federal Express, Tandy Corporation, Mitsubishi, Merrill Lynch, The Home Shopping Network, Fujitsu, Nikko Securities and Toyota.

Sakamoto believes that e-services in this part of the region is not much different from the e-services (travel sites, online shopping and auction) in Japan.

"What is lacking is the infrastructure, that is the backbone network," he comments. According to him, the telcos in this part of the region are left behind in terms of providing digital broadband services for home users.

The company has a total of four product catogories. HyperFlow 2 and HyperFlow 3 offers clustering and load distribution among servers, routers, firewalls, e-mail systems and virtual private networks(VPNs).

HyperSwitch offers Plug-N-Go Web server clustering solution, while HyperWAN enables resource allocation of mirrored sites by integrating domain name server (DNS) services while interacting with the edge routers.

HYPERCOMMERCE, THE LATEST OFFERING The company's latest offering is HyperCommerce, a traffic management product that supports secure socket layer (SSL) acceleration for e- business infrastructures. Sakamoto explains that some e-commerce applications switch between "clear text" and "secure text" while in the same transaction. HyperCommerce maintains persistency for end users using a variety of transaction persistency modes.

Its SSL cryptographic acceleration increases Web server farm performance by offloading the SSL application resulting in a configuration of 200 (minimum) to 4800 (maximum) per transaction per second.

Sakamoto adds that Hypercommerce also supports TSL and IPSEC/PKE and can be placed inside a customer's existing e-site infrastructure to improve e- commerce performance without requiring a major configuration.

"HyperCommerce works in conjunction with traffic management appliances including HyperFlow2 and Hyperflow3 to resolve congestion, scalability and single server failures by treating multiple service devices as one. Clustering individual servers in this way provides virtual service," Sakamoto explains.

Additionally, high availability of the Web site can be achieved by directing client requests to many clustered HyperCommerce units when congestion occurs.

HyperCommerce offloads and removes SSL processing from the Web servers into a secure management appliance installed in front of the server farm.

Sakamoto claims that HyperCommerce is compatible with the SSL security solutions used in Internet browsers for client-to-business applications.

Illustrations/Photos:
Caption: Hypercommerce: A traffic management product that supports
secure socket layer acceleration for e business infrastructures.

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