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hotComm
and the VNS, the Virtual Network Server
To leverage this powerful peer network connectivity, 1stWorks has
implemented a small and efficient Windows client, hotComm, which deliver server-less
and private interactive secure messaging, voice, video and file management among
registered users. This solution delivers global interactive access based on your
email address and your authentication code, which are registered in 1stWorks Virtual
Network Server (VNS), providing DNS like functionality for session based dynamic
Internet addresses.
hotComm is a valuable collaborative tool, demonstrating the efficiency and scalability
of the dynamic address management technology of the VNS, delivering ease of use,
performance, privacy and security as the basis for broad acceptance. Supporting
millions of simultaneous users, hotComm is the pre-eminent collaboration solution,
for example, the session host or members may simultaneously manage access to Web
pages within a messaging session, so that all users can discuss and comment on group
data. For efficiency and to further reduce server impact, the updated addresses
from active users are chained from adjacent users prior to transmission to the VNS.
Similarly, each hotComm client pre-computes the VNS contact search table look up
value, which is simply the email address of each requested contact, before transmission
to further improve VNS performance.
Support is also provided for true peer networking for multiple users behind a single
IP, without NAT re- programming or replacement. The initial release of hotComm delivers
its functionality on the Windows platform, including Web Serving support, even for
Windows '98. hotComm only supports access to other users whose contact details are
listed in each personal address book, rather than having all information publicly
available however hotComm will include a utility to import selected contacts from
a Microsoft Outlook address book.
All communications between users are private and confidential, an encryption key
is issued simultaneously to each one of the participants at the initiation of each
new session, a key that is unique to that combination of the particular session
and the particular users only for the duration of the connection. The encryption
process incorporated in hotComm is automatically applied to all transferred data,
speech, text or file data.
Special hotComm presentations are available online.
Additional information can be found by reading the hotComm
User Guide.
For more information, please visit hotComm,
IM-Live and ezPeer.
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