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Afterburner Communications Server Technical Whitepaper

Overview The Afterburner Communications Server is server appliance designed by Argon Technology Group and manufactured by API, a Samsung company. It provides a programmable communications infrastructure ideal for financial exchanges, clearing systems, risk management systems, online databases and distributed multimedia delivery systems.

The principal objectives of the Afterburner Server are:

Order-of-magnitude performance advantage over conventional solutions (Sun/HP/IBM)

Slash time-to-delivery of complex communications projects by 85% or more.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Argon Technology Group	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Multimedia

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