TELUS Mobility and Fourelle Systems Partner to Launch Venturi, Accelerating Content Delivery Across Western Canada's Wireless Networks

The partnership between TELUS Mobility and Fourelle Systems has launched the Venturi platform, designed to accelerate content delivery across TELUS Mobility's extensive wireless networks in Western Canada. This development aims to provide subscribers with significantly faster data speeds, improved e-mail and web browsing capabilities, and enhanced overall digital experience.

Key Takeaways:

• Venturi is a standards-based Accelerated Content Delivery platform that speeds up the delivery of application data on various distributed networks, including wireless, satellite, frame relay, and dial-up networks.
• TELUS Mobility has commercially deployed Venturi in Global 2000 enterprises, achieving performance gains and exceeding customer expectations.
• Users can achieve up to a 300% performance improvement relative to a standard landline connection, thanks to Fourelle's pioneering use of content-specific compression and a lightweight optimized bandwidth-efficient protocol.
• Venturi will provide TELUS Mobility with a competitive edge as the premier wireless player in Western Canada, as the platform will offer significantly faster content delivery for web applications, e-mail, and enterprise applications.
• TELUS Mobility offers two wireless data services: i-Web Microbrowser and i-Web Mobile Computing with Venturi, designed to cater to the needs of mobile workers and provide a convenient way to access the Internet, e-mail, and databases.
• Fourelle Systems, Inc. is the global market leader in the deployment of accelerated content delivery solutions, with Venturi being the best-selling solution for speeding content delivery, increasing network capacity, and reducing network operating costs.

Statistics:

• Up to a 300% performance improvement relative to a standard landline connection.
• 50-90% less data sent across the network with no loss of data to the user.
• TELUS Mobility covers 90% of the British Columbia population and 80% in Alberta, targeting all urban and major traffic areas in Western Canada.
• Over 1.3 million cellular and paging customers in Western Canada rely on TELUS Mobility for various wireless services.
• TELUS Mobility's digital footprint provides services to customers in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.

Sources:

• PRNewswire: "Fourelle Systems, Inc. and TELUS Mobility announce the debut of the Venturi product platform..."
• Fourelle Systems: "Global leader in accelerated content delivery solutions"
• TELUS: "About TELUS"
• TELUS Mobility: "About TELUS Mobility"