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Photronics Implements SafeVelocitytm to Increase Tape-Out Speed &
Reliability and Sees Immediate ROI
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., April 02, 2010 — SolutionSoft Systems Inc, a
leading provider of Intelligent Data Optimization (IDO)
solutions today announced the continued success of SafeVelocity
at Photronics, the industry leader in the design, development
and production of reticles and photomasks for semiconductor and
microelectronic applications.
As data storage and file size grows exponentially,
SafeVelocity specifically addresses the problems of transferring
large files (megabytes to gigabytes) over the Internet.
SafeVelocity significantly increases transfer reliability,
security and throughput rate.
Enterprises looking to improve speed and security when
transferring large files and or large sets of files will see an
immediate benefit from implementing SafeVelocity.
“While
there are unique differences between the needs of certain
industries, tools like SafeVelocity are able to fill a basic
need across them. Our SafeVelocity customers experience
virtually error free transfers as well as bandwidth savings as
much as 90%. The results seen at Photronics will also be seen at
any large enterprise that regularly moves large quantities of
data, be they semiconductor or some completely unrelated
industry" said Paul Wang, President of Solution-Soft.
“Photronics had already been using our gdzip and mezip
GDSII/Mebes file compressors, so adding SafeVelocity to the mix
was a natural evolution that delivered a clear ROI for them,”
continued Paul Wang.
Merchant
mask shops must insure the smooth transfer of large data sets
between design house, mask shop, foundry, and customer. These
data sets represent product and therefore must reach their
destination in order for work to commence or continue.
Transfer delays at any
stage of the process can push manufacturing and release dates
out resulting in large losses of revenue, so making sure the
file transfer is fast, reliable and secure is of critical
importance. Photronics also has a great deal of production
automation at multiple manufacturing sites that is specifically
designed to be triggered by the FTP server daemon when a
transfer is closed. They needed a way to step up from
traditional FTP throughput rates that would guarantee fast and
reliable bi-directional transfer of data as efficiently as
possible, and to do so without re-engineering the applications
in place or fundamentally moving away from FTP as the primary
method of moving data between sites.
As their design file sizes expanded this became a very
critical data transfer issue.
Photronics decided to apply Solution-Soft’s SafeVelocity to
solve these problems as it offers a superset of traditional FTP
functionality which allowed Photronics to simply replace their
old FTP daemon without impacting any other aspect of the
environment. This
eliminated the need for (and expenses associated with)
maintaining an FTP daemon of their own.
By using adaptive techniques to adjust for latency and
other network conditions, and by performing automatic
compression and decompression when beneficial to do so, Safe
Velocity provided the substantial increase in transfer speed
Photronics was looking for.
By using the guaranteed transfer mode Safe Velocity
provided the reliability Photronics users and application
components required by eliminating the need for manual or
programmatic recovery and retransmission.
And by supporting a callout script at session-close Safe
Velocity allowed Photronics to automate the handling of reticle
data, further increasing overall process efficiency and reducing
total cycle time.
"I have proven to
myself that a SafeVelocity client to SafeVelocity server
transfer is faster than standard FTP and does not require
additional compress/decompress time at both end as would be
necessary when transmitting GZIP data. That is to say you don't
compress anything beforehand; you let SV do it on the fly at
both ends…You guys are head and shoulders above
every other product I am doing throughput testing with (for
uncompressed data) and no other product comes close to meeting
our worldwide transfer needs.”
said John Chivian,
Staff Software Engineer, Photronics, Inc.
Availability
SafeVelocity is available for all Windows, UNIX & Linux. See
http://www.solution-soft.com/safevelocity.shtml for more
information.
About Photronics
Photronics is the industry leader in the design, development and
production of reticles and photomasks for semiconductor and
microelectronic applications. Photronics supports the diverse
needs of the global semiconductor community through a network of
manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe and North America.
About Solution-Soft
Solution-Soft is the leading provider of Intelligent Data
Optimization (IDO) solutions, which address the urgent need for
automated management of data in complex networking environments.
IDO solutions facilitate automated data selection,
compression, movement, and redirection that optimize high
availability, storage scalability, and system performance.
Solution-Soft boasts more than 1,500 customers, including
3M, AT&T, Boeing, Chartered Semi, Citibank, Dai Nippon Printing,
Ford, French Telecom, Hewlett Packard, Merck, Photronics,
Qualcomm, Toppan, TSMC, UMC and Xilinx.
Solution-Soft’s market presence is bolstered by
partnerships with Citrix Systems (Nasdaq:CTXS), FalconStor (Nasdaq:FALC),
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT),
Network Appliance (Nasdaq: NTAP), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Sun
Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW) and Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS).
Contact:
Michael Morrison
Solution-Soft
408.346.1415
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