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To: Dave B who wrote (371)	8/15/2001 3:56:32 PM
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Kenamea boasts of secure, real-time delivery of Web applications. (Product Announcement) Network World, July 30, 2001 p31 By Mears, Jennifer Full Text SAN FRANCISCO - What if corporate applications could function with the same reliability and security on the Internet as they do on internal business systems? What if you could forever banish the hourglass icon or Web page error messages so common in Web-based applications? And what if you could do this without the costly investment of writing complex code? Figure it's all pie-in-the-sky? Start-up software maker Kenamea says not so. Kenamea last week announced its Kenamea Application Network, the culmination of two years of software development the company claims will change the way applications are delivered over the Internet. While companies such as Bang Networks and Akamai are focusing on improving the delivery of content across the Web, Kenamea is focused squarely on applications. And while vendors such as IBM, Tibco and Microsoft have improved application communication within back-end systems, Kenamea is taking things a step further. The Kenamea Application Network is a messaging-based communications layer that uses Java and HTML and sits on top of any network that permits HTTP or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic. Instead of communicating by sending Web pages and dealing with hit-or-miss connections, Kenamea uses messaging technology to create a secure, persistent connection all the way from the back end to the end user and back again. "What we're doing is providing fully bidirectional, event-driven, reliable and secure communications between nodes on the network," says John Blair, Kenamea president and CEO. So for example, in an online trading application, when you input a purchase order and hit submit, instead of posting a request for a Web page, the Kenamea network packages a message and sends it to the back-end system. If there is a network outage or your wireless device loses service as you click on submit, a Kenamea switch, housed in an Internap collocation facility, stores that message until it can be delivered. The retry function works the same way going from the back end to the front end. And the messages are all encrypted. What's best, says one executive with a large wireless network, is that it's all available out of the box from Kenamea - there's no heavy code that needs to be written. An executive with a global provider of wireless and wireline communication services, who requested anonymity, says his firm began writing code to create the interactivity they wanted from their online applications, but found installing client software on user desktops became unmanageable. "Then came this product from Kenamea that does this for us," he says. With Kenamea, end users can get real-time information without having to refresh entire pages, cutting the network load considerably, he says. "We expect big savings," he says, noting that his firm is in the process of rolling out the service to a pilot group of users. Still, Kenamea may face some hurdles to acceptance in the business-to-consumer market because end users must download code to their operating systems. Blair compares the download to what users must do to run Flash on their systems, "but [the Kenamea code] is much smaller." "Kenamea comes in for conservative organizations that want to do business over the Web but also demand the kind of control and the kind of quality guarantees they're used to having within their enterprise," says Mark Driver, research director at Gartner. "But they don't want to invest in all the proprietary or closed network infrastructure. They want to be able to leverage the public network infrastructure of the Internet." The Kenamea Application Network service, available now, is priced based on simultaneous connections and bandwidth and starts at $5,000. It will be available as packaged software this fall. Kenamea: www.kenamea.com COPYRIGHT 2001 Network World, Inc.