Enterprises, large and small, are experiencing rapid growth for data and video applications. With this growth comes the mandate to contain wide area bandwidth costs. The challenge is particularly acute for businesses with many remote sites.
WAN compression is becoming a critical tool in managing cost for these businesses. The economics are compelling. Depending upon the mix of applications, bandwidth can expand on average by 2-3 times. In some cases, bandwidth can expand by up to 10 times. The result is immediate, measurable savings. Profitability improves as WAN operating costs are reduced. Investments in more bandwidth can be delayed. Productivity and customer response can also improve as applications run more quickly over existing WAN links.
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Infima Bandwidth Compression Appliance
The infima compression Appliance is an intelligent, application-aware system featuring the industry’s leading compression technologies. Designed to apply compression where it brings the greatest value, the bandwidth compression appliance optimizes application performance while expanding available bandwidth by a factor of up to 10X. This high performance family of products addresses remote branch and large headquarter requirements with the ability to scale from 512 Kbps to 100 Mbps.
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Main Features:
- World best compression optimizes bandwidth efficiency and application performance.
- Superior WAN cost savings via patent pending compression efficiency technology.
- Application acceleration enhances employee productivity and customer responsiveness
- Bandwidth cost avoidance provides room for new traffic growth
SELECTIVE COMPRESSION OPTIMIZES BUSINESS APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
To optimize both WAN bandwidth and application performance, compression needs to be applied intelligently. This means knowing which applications to compress. The bandwidth Compression Appliance allows Web traffic to be cached while large email file transfers are compressed.
SUPERIOR WAN COST SAVINGS
The Bandwidth Compression Appliance integrates infima world best compression technologies to deliver cost savings that are unsurpassed in the industry. Bandwidth can be expanded by as much as 10X.
In “real world” testing—based on industrystandard Canterbury, Large, Bio-medical and Calgary Corpus files— the Bandwidth Compression Appliance was found to improve WAN capacity by nearly 300%. This is a 70% improvement over the closest competing product. While Bandwidth demands can be reduced by as much as 80%—more in some cases. These cost savings not only improve the near term profitability of the business, they also delay investments in more bandwidth as application traffic grows.
ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY AND CUSTOMER RESPONSIVENESS
The bandwidth expansion enabled by compression also accelerates application file transfers. For example, Bandwidth Compression Appliance performance testing has shown that an uncompressed 11 megabyte binary file takes 62 seconds to transfer over a T1 link. When compressed by the Bandwidth Compression Appliance, transfer time is reduced to 34 seconds. This 50% improvement in transfer speed means employees are more productive and customers are better served.
Contact Information
For more information about Infima Image Compression SDK contact:
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Infima Application Intelligent Compression Library (SDK)
Quickly increase network capacity, improving application performance and user response times with application intelligent compression.
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increase network capacity
Infima's compression technologies deliver an easy way to quickly increase network capacity over the same physical links, improving application performance and user response times. Infima's unique plug-in architecture enables continuous improvement in compression gains—world best compression ratio's.
Application-Intelligent Symmetric Compression
Compression works between two Infima's components—symmetrically—to engage specialized, low-latency compression technologies. Using patent pending traffic compression technologies —including multiple modules, fragment caching, header compression and bundling—our Layer application intelligence helps identify different application types and apply the optimal compression techniques to each.
Application-Specific Selective Compression
Infima's Application Library chooses a different compression approach for packet payload—instead of for packet headers—applying "two pass" compression to less latency-sensitive applications.
When it makes sense, Infima's application intelligence opts not to compress, saving resources and getting better overall compression results. Compression results vary, depending on application mix.
Plug-In Architecture
Infima's plug-in architecture enables the application to add new, application-specific compression sub-modules over time. We continue to update our compression technologies —releasing a brand new patent pending technology which achieves world best ratio's for all data types and improving effectiveness by about 40 percent. As plug-ins, new classifications can be easily downloaded as they become available—without waiting for a major software release.
Minimize Latency: MTU Management, Packing and Rate Control
To minimize latency and further accelerate traffic, Infima's MTU (maximum transmission unit) management automatically adjusts MTU size to eliminate excess delays from link serialization delay or increase MTU to eliminate overhead from headers and acknowledgements.
Selectively bundling or concatenating packets, Infima's application library evaluates packet and MTU size as well as network timing to determine if, and when, combining multiple compressed packets into a single larger packet makes sense. Packing reduces overhead and improves compression gains.
Where Infima's Appliances Sit — A Two-Sided Solution
Infima appliances are deployed on the lower layer of the application protocol side. Since Appliances must be positioned so that they see all inbound and outbound traffic of the application.
Infima compression requires two appliances, one deployed at each end of a connection (Client/Server). Each appliance compresses its outbound traffic, and each unit at the receiving end decompresses inbound traffic, restoring traffic to its original state. The passageways for
compressed traffic between compression partners are known as tunnels.
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Measuring Compression
Fast WAN. Fast Apps. Fast Business.
Infima's application appliance compression results for a variety of applications, both from internal testing.
| Application |
Average Compression |
Peak Compression |
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| FTP |
80% |
95% |
| General Internet |
65% |
75% |
| ICMP (Ping) |
60% |
95% |
| Mail |
85% |
90% |
| NetBIOS |
75% |
90% |
| Oracle |
80% |
95% |
| SAP |
85% |
90% |
| SQL Server |
80% |
95% |
| Telnet |
80% |
90% |
| Web-Based Applications |
85% |
95% |
Contact Information
For more information about Infima Image Compression SDK contact:
info@myinfima.com
Infima Compression Library SDK
New compression format. Infima Compression Library SDK was built from the ground up for better compression and security but not at the cost of performance. The LAN format is a new archive format, providing high compression ratios for most data types, it provides a platform for managing and creating data archives which are 10%-85% better than other products. This significantly increases the performance data transfer for Internet and VPN applications. Infima Compression Library SDK also allows you to re-compress already compressed data such as JPEG, GIF, PDF etc. which Zip is not typically able to do.
The technology that lies behind Infima Compression Library SDK represents a breakthrough in the field of data compression. This breakthrough allows Infima Compression Library SDK to embed a new data compression technology which allows both very high compression ratios/rates as well as re-compression of uncompressible data set such as: JPEG files by an average of 30% without causing any additional loss in image quality. Infima Compression Library SDK is able to yield high compression ratios on data sets that Zip is typically not able to compress at all. Whether on the Desktop, in an Enterprise environment, or on the go, Infima Compression Library technology provides an important new tool for those looking to reduce storage and bandwidth costs.
Infima Technologies offers your end-users dramatically improved, high-speed performance on bandwidth-constrained wireline, wireless and satellite WAN access. From an ROI standpoint, your business will realize greater productivity, lower costs and improved customer responsiveness as a direct result. For wireless pay-per-use plans based on MB data throughput, infima compression engine significantly reduces data usage.
LAN Format - LAN is a new archive format, providing very high compression ratio for most data types.
The main features:
- Real-time compression for storage and distribution systems.
- Compression ratio/rate up to 3X better than existing technologies.
- Simplicity ensures seamless deployment into existing applications and appliances.
- Novel algorithm for data compression.
- Very high compression ratio and speed (45MB/sec on Pentium 4 -3Ghz).
- Unique modeling which enable very fast extraction of data – 5x faster than compression time.
- Recompression for already compressed files (such as: pdf, jpeg, gif, png etc) – lossless.
The Technical Features:
- Same API supports MS Windows, Solaris, Linux.
- Sample code is included.
- Thread-safe to allow simultaneous operations.
- Buffer to buffer compression/decompression processing for maximum flexibility.
- Static and shared dispatcher libraries combined with compressed opcode DLLs enable creation of single file executables.
- Includes documentation, operation samples, a source sample application and technical support.
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Solution Performance
Percentage Increase in Storage Capacity
The data sheet is from the official Data Compression Benchmark Suite
Contact Information
For more information about Infima Image Compression SDK contact:
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Infima Image Processing and Compression Library v2.0
The technology that lies behind Infima Imaging Library represents an important breakthrough in the field of image compression. This breakthrough allows Infima Imaging Library to embed a unique image compression technology which empowers both very high compression ratios/rates as well as re-compression of uncompressible data set such as: JPEG/JPEG2000 files by an average of 20% without causing any addition loss in image quality.
Infima Image Compression Technology
The data compression technology provided by Infima Imaging Library builds on nearly 8 years of experience in the field of data compression. Infima Imaging Library technology has continued to evolve to provide solutions to some of the most common problems faced by those in the data compression industry. The ability to further compress previously “compression resistant” as well as providing the fastest compression rate is the latest of our development.
The main features of Infima Image Sdk Package:
| Infima Lossless JPEG Compression Library |
The technology that lies behind Infima Jpeg compression library allows Infima to re-compress JPEG files by an average of nearly 20% without causing any addition loss in image quality (Bit to Bit reproduction). Infima Jpeg compression SDK introduces a new method for preprocessing JPEG images before they are compressed.
Using Infima Jpeg compression Library it is now possible to store full quality images within a file size that is equivalent to a high quality Image. The new technology enables consumers and businesses to compress JPEG's and increase storage and bandwidth efficiency in a wide variety of portable multi-media devices such as wireless handsets, cameras, and PDA’s. Whether on the Desktop, in an Enterprise environment, or on the go, Infima Jpeg Compression SDK provides an important new tool for those looking to reduce storage and bandwidth costs.
Key Features:
- Compress JPEG files an additional 20% without causing additional loss in image quality (bit-to-bit).
- Compression rate 1.4 Mb/sec on dual core.
- Totally lossless Jpeg compression.
- CRC guarantees reversibility.
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| Infima Lossless JPEG2000 Compression Library |
The technology that lies behind Infima Jpeg compression allows Infima to re-compress JPEG2000 files by an average of nearly 10% without causing any addition loss in image quality (Bit to Bit reproduction). Infima Jpeg2000 compression SDK introduces a new method for preprocessing JPEG images before they are compressed.
Infima JPEG2000 compression library introduces a new compression modeling concept which allows us to re-compress JPEG2000 files without causing any addition loss in image quality.
JPEG-2000:
The codec is based on wavelet/subband coding techniques. It handles both lossy and lossless compression using the same transform-based framework, and borrows heavily on ideas from the embedded block coding with optimized truncation (EBCOT) scheme. In order to facilitate both lossy and lossless coding in an efficient manner, reversible integer-to-integer and nonreversible real-toreal transforms are employed. To code transform data, the codec makes use of bit-plane coding techniques.
Key Features:
- Transforms all component layers back to the RAW frequency domain.
- Split the image into horizontal slices coded independently, separated by restart codes.
- Adjust Prediction coefficients to minimize average round-off errors.
- Scan each block starting with first coefficient in zigzag order, interleaving the 3 color components in order to scan the whole image left to right starting at the top.
- Code the coefficients.
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| Image processing and manipulation |
Infima Image Processing and Compression provides a simple C++ API to the Infima Image processing library which supports reading and writing a huge number of image formats as well as supporting a broad spectrum of traditional image processing operations. Infima Image Compression Library provides access to most of the features available from the C API but in a simple object-oriented and well-documented framework.
Key Features:
- Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG).
- Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image.
- Transparency: render portions of an image invisible.
- Draw: add shapes or text to an image.
- Decorate: add a border or frame to an image.
- Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image.
- Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image channels.
- Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image.
- Image identification: describe the format and attributes of an image.
- Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images.
- Composite: overlap one image over another.
- Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas.
- Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and giga-pixel image sizes.
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Supported Platforms:
- Operating System for Deployment: Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit
- Component Type: .NET Class, DLL
- Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, .NET Framework 2.0
Contact Information
For more information about Infima Image Acceleration Solution contact:
info@myinfima.com
Infima Medical Image Solution
Infima Image Compression for Medical Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
Medical images digital acquisition and storage is increasing fast. This is true for all modalities, including ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, computed tomography, endoscope, mammography, radiography and pathology.
Those images are typically very large in size and number, and compression offers a means to reduce the cost of storage and increase the speed of transmission.
Infima for Medical Image Compression
Infima Technologies, LTD. provides lossless based image compression solutions to original equipment manufacturers for use in medical systems. The Infima Medical Compression Library and Software Development Kit are optimized for medical images. The libraries, example programs, and viewing tools are developed and maintained by Infima compression group. We focus on delivering a fully supported, optimized, fully featured implementation and add-on capabilities making it highly useful for medical applications.
The software development kit (SDK) provides imaging technology designed to enhance medical imaging applications. Infima Medical Library contains low-level C libraries providing the fastest compression and decompression engines available. It offers both near lossless and lossless DICOM-compliant with our on propriety PLAN format.
Solution Benefits
- Superior compression ratio.
- The solution is software based without any special hardware requirements.
- Highly Optimized for speed, particularly for 10-16 bit medical imagery.
- Reduced I/O service time resulting in performance enhancement in most cases.
- Provides exceptional stability and high speed in limited-resource environments.
- Scalable results, enabling fast preview of images and communication streaming.
- No loss of information during the compression process.
Superior Image Quality
Infima lossless compression option enables archiving compressed lossless images, eliminating any concerns of image and detail degradation as a result of compression for diagnostic purposes.
Achievable compression ratios in lossless mode are 2:1 to 3:1.
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Near Lossless Compressed Image
The archived image can be compressed and saved in lossless or near lossless form. Multiple smaller blocks of data can be extracted from these very high quality compressed files and progressively decoded and viewed from networked clients.
Achievable compression ratios in near lossless mode are 10:1, 20:1.
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Availability of pyramidal resolution Versions from the Single Lossless or Near Lossless Compressed Image
The archived image can be compressed and saved in lossless or near lossless form. Pyramidal resolution (half, quarter size) Versions can be extracted from those very high quality compressed files and progressively decoded and viewed from networked clients.
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Solution Performance
Performance Example
Source is 423M of medical images dataset
(Samples from http://pubimage.hcuge.ch:8080/)
Contact Information
For more information about Infima Medical Image Solution contact:
info@myinfima.com
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4.1.2007: Infima Image Archiving SDK v1.4:
- Compress JPEG files an additional 20% without causing additional loss in image quality (bit-to-bit).
- Compress Kodak-Gray-Scale Image up to 30% (bit-to-bit).
- Compress Bitmaps up to 70% (bit-to-bit).
- Compress Gif – gray-scale image up to 30% (no quality loss).
- Compress Png – gray-scale image up to 30% (no quality loss).
- Compress Tiff – gray-scale image up to 95%.
- Totally lossless image compression.
- CRC guarantees reversibility.
- Support all images formats BMP, WMF, EMF, ICO, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PCX, PCC, DCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, TGA, VST, AFI.
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3.1.2007: Infima Bandwidth Appliance SDK new release which consist on the following:
- Very high compression ratio and speed.
- Added new modeling which enable very fast extraction of archive – 10x faster than compression time.
- Recompression for already compressed files (suchlike: pdf, jpeg, gif, png etc) – lossless.
- Strong AES-256 encryption.
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17.7.2006: Infima Image Compression SDK v1.2:
- Compress Jpeg Images with a ratio of 15% in a rate of 730Kb/sec.
- Compress Jpeg Images with a ratio of 18-20% in a rate of 270Kb/sec.
- Compress Bitmaps with a ratio 70% (bit-to-bit) in a rate of 500Kb/sec.
- Compress Tiff – gray-scale image ratio of 75% in a rate of 500Kb/sec.
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4.6.2006: Infima Image Compression SDK v1.1:
- Compress Kodak-Gray-Scale Image up to 55% (bit-to-bit).
- Compress Bitmaps up to 70% (bit-to-bit).
- Compress Tiff – gray-scale image up to 95%.
- CRC guarantees reversibility.
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1.5.2006: Infima Jpeg Compression SDK:
- Further compress JPEG files an additional 20 percent without causing additional loss in image quality.
- CRC guarantees reversibility.
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