HONG KONG: Leading network solutions and service provider, Wafer Systems will display an array of innovative internet-focused solutions that are designed for use in this new digital economy during the Hong Kong IT Expo 2000.

The Hong Kong IT Expo 2000 will be held from 27th to 30th September at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Wafer Systems, participating at the Expo for the first time, will be demonstrating a series of Network Optimization solutions deployed by its clients at its booth No: J 37 over the four days.

In today's economy, enterprises are relying more and more on the Internet to conduct business. Wafer Systems, who is fast becoming a internet solutions specialist in the Greater China Region will be displaying a range of solutions based on its Network Optimization architecture for organizations to enhance their services to its customers.

"With the best of breed solutions that we represent from leading vendors like IBM, Cisco Systems, RSA Security, Allot, Netscout and Network Associates combined with our professional expertise in systems integration, we are now poised to lead the industry into the new digital era with our internet-focused solutions for our customers," stated Ringo Chan, Chief Executive Officer of Wafer Systems. "Our participation at Hong Kong IT Expo marks Wafer Systems' robust position in the region."

Some highlights of Wafer Systems solutions are:

1) Web-caching solutions -

A caching scheme will substantially speed up online content delivery by serving the most popular Web pages from the network edge. This is achieved by combining authoring the cache-control attributes on web pages properly and by installing a suitable high performance caching appliances. With our professional managed caching solutions, unnecessary equipment spending in e-commerce infrastructures can be eliminated, carrier bandwidth can be better utilized, back end servers farms can be off-loaded, web performance can be accelerated and subscriber overall satisfaction can be improved.

2) Content Switching Solutions -

A content smart switching solution enables Hosting Providers to deliver their customers' content faster to more users, without a costly investment in server infrastructure. Wafer professionally manages content switching solution by carefully tailoring a network infrastructure of layer 4 content intelligent switches to users requirements. With this infrastructure, client requests to web sites can be accelerated substantially by identifying specifically when customers want to do so, determining the best way to serve them at that moment and re-routing them directly to the motstn effective Web servers at that moment. This ensures that customers will have a positive web surfing experience on the web sites.

3) Load Balancing Solutions -

A load balancing scheme will globally load balance client requests based upon real time server availability, server health, server utilization, and/or client proximity to site. This is achieved by carefully building a load balancing solution and integrating them with the existing DNS. Wafer professionally managed load balancing solution will replicated intelligently frequently accessed data to Web servers or caches located at geographically dispersed data centers or content delivery nodes. One of the main reasons for using a load-balancing device is to increase capacity of IP servers such as web servers and FTP servers. Load balancing solutions can share the load among a large number of servers making them appear as one large virtual server.

Network Monitoring and Tuning
Wafer network management solution is a carefully planned, comprehensive solution that helps you keep your network devices up and running, and your business competitive. It will include but not limit to the following essential functions.

• Delivers a root-cause analysis of exact network problems with specific resources, without dispatching administrators to user locations;
  
  
• Produces an accurate assessment of each network device in your entire computing environment, so you always know the status of all your resources;
  
  
• Possesses thorough, unique reporting tools that enable you to obtain data collections and smart sets so you can perform thoughtful analyses and understand the overall health of your network;
  
  
• Records and analyzes network data so you can anticipate and plan for additional devices, allowing you to keep pace with increased network demands;

Wafer Systems solutions are appropriate for the emerging New Services Providers which include ISPs, ASPs, CSPs, ICPs who need to rely on new technologies to get ahead of their competitors.