Propel® Announces Strategic Agreement with NetSweeper®
Leading Provider of Acceleration Service Partners with Industry-Leading Internet Content Filtering Provider
March 1, 2004, San Jose, CA and Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Propel Software Corporation, a leader in Internet acceleration, today announced a strategic agreement with NetSweeper Inc., a leader in intelligent Internet filtering technology for corporations, Internet service providers, educational institutions, and government organizations.
"Both NetSweeper and Propel are singularly focused on providing award winning services to ISPs," said Scott Sorochak, Vice President of Sales for Propel. "By joining forces with NetSweeper, we are delivering on a vision of providing ISPs with a full spectrum of service enhancements, giving our customers the edge they need to succeed in this competitive market."
"Propel and NetSweeper have teamed up to provide a truly innovative solution for acceleration and content filtering," said Perry Roach, President and CEO of NetSweeper. "Driven by a subscriber's chosen attributes, ISPs can now offer the fastest Internet accelerator, Propel¬Accelerator, with the peace of mind provided by NetSweeper's Parental Controls."
"This partnership makes Propel and NetSweeper the first to offer a suite of value-add services to ISPs: acceleration, ad blocking, pop-up blocking, and now content filtering," said Mike Cassidy, managing partner of ISP Market, a leading marketing consulting firm focused on the ISP community. "By combining these services, customers are able to alleviate two big frustrations associated with using the Internet - speed of access, and control over what can be accessed online."
NetSweeper and Propel have begun co-marketing their services to over 25 ISPs globally.
About NetSweeper
NetSweeper Inc. is a privately held Canadian organization with its head office located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. With several additional offices now located in the United States, the United Kingdom, South America, and South Africa, NetSweeper Inc. has expanded its markets by providing intelligent Web filtering technology to corporations, Internet service providers, educational institutions, and government organizations around the world. NetSweeper's goal is to provide the most proactive and innovative Web filtering process to the end customer, while maintaining a high level of simplicity and functionality through its easy-to-use Web-based interfaces.
Since its inception in 1999, NetSweeper Inc. has successfully deployed its services to over 150 ISPs, educational networks, corporations, and governmental networks- reaching over 5 million end customers- including The Government of Ontario, Fujitsu Managed Services in the UK, and Bell Canada. NetSweeper is located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Please visit www.net-sweeper.com for more information.
About Propel
Propel Software, an innovator in Web acceleration, was founded in 1999 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who also founded Web search engine and portal Infoseek (acquired by The Walt Disney Company), authoring and publishing developer Frame Technology (acquired by Adobe Systems Incorporated) and computer peripheral pioneer Mouse Systems Corporation.
Propel's mission is to solve the frustrations of using the Internet. The first of these is a problem that affects approximately 600 million Internet users globally: slow Internet connections. Propel Accelerator speeds up Web browsing up to 5 times by using patent-pending compression, caching and connection optimization techniques. Most recently, Propel Accelerator continues solving frustrations by incorporating the blocking of unwanted pop-up and in-page advertising.
Since its launch in 2002, Propel Accelerator has been deployed by over 100 Internet and network service providers in Canada, Europe, the Middle East and the United States - serving over 20 million subscribers - including EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK), PeoplePC Online in the US; and has signed over 500 reseller and affiliates, such as U.S. Robotics. Propel Accelerator has received critical acclaim from Silicon Valley's Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, and has been named "Editor's Choice" by both CNET and ZDNet. Propel is located in San Jose, California. Visit Propel at www.propel.com.
