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Two year old Wan Optlmization startup Peribit Networks this Fall will turn its attention to application response time and larger networks, with new software and hardware for each. The Santa Clara, California, company next month will add new PFA (Packet Flow Acceleration) technology to its Sequence Reducer hardware, which employs proprietary Molecular Sequence Reduction technology to compress redundant data flows crossing expensive WAN links. With wait times fairly lengthy over long distances, the PFA technology promises to bring LAN-like performance to users accessing remote ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications from one continent to the next, according to Peribit user Chip Greel, architect at Finisar Corp., in Sunnyvale, California.

The article presents information on companies including MegaPath Networks Inc., that help other companies locate Internet service providers (ISP) or digital subscriber line (DSL) subscribers. MegaPath, an ISP in Pleasanton, California rolled out its Broadband Rescue program for computer network subscribers. Another company Axcelerant Inc.'s Lifeline program, targeted at large enterprise customers coordinates service migration by determining the most appropriate provider, placing the order, monitoring the order and extinguishing the existing connection. The services are striking a chord with DSL users left in the lurch. Axcelerant uses the customer relationship shortcomings of the large and unwieldy regional service providers as an opportunity to serve as middlemen.

Focuses on the introduction of second-generation Fiber Channel computer network products at the 2000 Comdex Computer Show in California. QLogic's bus adapter and switch; Emulex's LightPulse 9002 hosts bus adapter.