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CinTel, CURTIS ENTER STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

CinTel Corp, an Internet Traffic Management (ITM) solution provider, announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Curtis Inc for the sale of memory disks (solid state disks). CNCN will expand its System Performance Improvement (SPI) solutions in memory disks and system performance improvement consulting to meet the growing market demand for large transaction processing.

The agreement calls for CNCN to receive the exclusive right to sell Curtis' product line in Korea under the name "SST-V1". In addition, the companies plan to integrate CinTel's iCache and i2one products with Curtis' product line.

The performance and reliability of Curtis' memory disk solutions are well proven with some 20,000 memory disks already having been sold in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia.

Memory disks are storage devices designed for the quicker processing speeds of SRAM, DRAM and SDRAM. They deliver processing rates over 100 times quicker than existing magnetic hard disks, and are considered the ideal solution for improved server performance through integration into a server's components.

While competitors products can only be used as PCI-type storage or as external memory disks, CinTel's memory disk solution can be used for multiple purposes, along the same lines as current magnetic disks. The memory disks can be deployed easily in already installed server systems, and used as SAN storage consisting of arrays.

The SCSI, FC-type memory disk comes in two versions, a 1-inch and 1.6-inch, and supports up to a maximum of 18GB. Because a standard disk is also utilized, automatic backup can be done easily in 10 minutes, regardless of capacity.

The SST-V1-SAN-1T (1TByte) supports 32GB per second max bandwidth, and can process data at 400MB per second (FC Type) per memory disk. In comparison, 10,000RPM magnetic disks can process data at around 5MB per second.

James Lee, managing director of CinTel's SST-V1 team said, "Beyond delivering this sheer improvement of system performance, the focus of this new business will be to advise businesses in methods of gaining these extraordinary performance improvements and to make memory disks ubiquitous. The memory disks flexibility for use along the lines of standard hard disks makes it an easy solution to apply to any field needing quick data processing."

CinTel plans to market SST-V1 to large enterprises, financial institutions, e-commerce providers, telecoms and government computing installations who are looking to improve their services to customer's by increasing computing performance.

CinTel has the exclusive right to sell this OEM product in Korea and plans to expand it into Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia using the sales forces of CinTel's resellers.