LAFAYETTE, Colo., Jan. 6, 2004 — Bandwidth control, or the fair sharing of internet bandwidth, has become increasingly important any place where multiple users share a common internet access point. Without some form of bandwidth control, one or two heavy users can easily slow everybody else’s connection down, thus reducing the high speed experience to a frustrating dial-up deja vu.
The model followed by APconnections to bring their products out, has been somewhat unconventional.
APconnections is a completely organic company started in a garage on sweat equity. They have mastered the ability to develop and distribute free technology for the techie crowd, and then bundle and integrate the same technology in a professional version for customers who want something ready to plug in. The Netequalizer and related technologies are currently in use by more than 1000 users from wireless ISPs, school districts, universities and home gamers — all with a common need to better control their internet bandwidth usage.
With venture capital hard to come by, and even when available, often encumbered with unpalatable strings or a distracting time consuming chase, APconnections is a throwback to the American Dream of starting an innovative product company.
Some of the strategies used by APconnections may revolutionize the technology industry:
1) They incur little or no testing cost for new releases; the open source community provides an enormous pool of knowledgeable testers, eager to try out beta releases and actually fix problems rather than complain.
2) Marketing is accomplished by giving out portions of useful technology on free sites. Most users, when asked, will gladly provide a reference to a commercial customer (sort of like tipping the waiter), thus allowing APconnections to grow with a minimal marketing budget.
3) The informal, open source commercial partnership helps the economy and investors by allowing technology to incubate and find its market with very little investment; no more huge dry wells to be absorbed.
About APconnections (www.apconnections.net)
Based in Lafayette, Colorado, APconnections specializes in developing technology solutions that optimize critical network bandwidth resources.
Contact and references:
Art Reisman, 888-287-2492
www.apconnections.net
www.bandwidtharbitrator.com (open source technology site run by APconnections)
