Seattle-based Highwire, a provider of b-2-b Internet and travel technology services for travel intermediaries, agencies and travel-independent corporations, has chosen AlterEgo XS to enable wireless capabilities for their complete offering of corporate travel tools.
AlterEgo XS is a fully outsourced XML-based service that provides a complete solution for Highwire to adapt and deliver web applications, content and services for users accessing travel information through web-enabled cell phones, PDAs, pagers or Internet appliances. AlterEgo XS combines content adaptation through AlterEgo Designer and high-performance delivery via the AlterEgo Adaptive Network, providing Highwire`s enterprise customers with travel data optimised for their specific net access devices along with the highest levels of reliable, scalable network delivery. AlterEgo`s 10 node network distributed across North America and Europe leverages the AlterEgo Adaptive Platform to bring specific functions—content adaptation, image transformation, bandwidth detection and intelligent routing—that deliver a customized, high-quality Internet experience to every user regardless of platform (wired desktop or any wireless thin client device), location or bandwidth connection.
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