File Transfer and Job Submission - New Software and New Applications (Part 2)

Industry-specific file transfer and job submission services Since the technical forecast last year, DAX and Vio, two industry-specific providers of file transfer and job submission services, have announced their decision to withdraw from the industry. Among them, DAX was acquired by Torque Systems, and Vio was annexed by Citizen. The company bought all the shares of Saige and British Telecom. Both companies have their own business scope. It is uncertain whether to retain file transfer and job submission services in the next few years, especially in the face of other inexpensive and practical applications. It's competitive.
On the other hand, WAM! NET continues to maintain its strong proprietary network, although many people predict that it will eventually fail. Currently WAM! NET has made a series of adjustments to the company's strategy, focusing on some real value projects in the industry, and is also very concerned about the vertical markets involved in company services. WAM! NET announced that they will begin to profit next year. Although the cost of file transfer and job submission using a proprietary network (such as that provided by WAM!NET) is relatively large, it has played a leading role in the application of the Internet in the industry, and it has also gained security and reliable quality from proprietary networks. In terms of perspective, like WAM! Sites like NET are really a good choice.
Last year there were also some industry-specific file transfer systems based on ASP, including DAX-IT and a Norwegian company, FileFlow, which launched new products for advertising companies.
One company that has truly succeeded and evolved in the past few years is Group Logic, which has provided solutions for the printing industry for more than five years. Its flagship product, MassTransit, has FTP (file transfer), remote proofing, and process integration. Other functions. Companies like MyFujiFilm.com also integrate MassTransit into their own products. Group Logic is expected to introduce more new products in the next two years.
The network connection is not difficult to see, 2001 is a key year of digital connection. However, during this year, the economy has experienced a major decline. The telecommunications companies and many network service providers, both large and small, have not achieved satisfactory results. The economic environment has undoubtedly caused a huge impact on the digital connection services that have just started. .
In 2001, DSL (a private line network) began to be widely understood by users and seemed to be the mainstream solution for job transfer and file transfer applications in the industry. However, at this time, two major DSL providers in the U.S. (Rhythms and Northpoint) closed one after another. After the third and largest one, Covad, went bankrupt. Then AT&T got involved and bought Northpoint, but their old customers couldn't get connected services. Rhythms' customers are fortunate, and WorldCom continues to provide services after acquiring Rhythms. Despite this, the overall situation of DSL has not been a result of this, because some local large companies such as Verizon, Qwest, and SBC Communications have further promoted DSL in their respective fields and increased its speed. Therefore, those companies that want to do e-commerce operations in big cities can still get easy, cheap, and high-quality DSL services.
At the same time, the price of T1 is also declining, and the downward trend will continue. More and more companies in the printing industry are adopting T1. And because the firewall application becomes cheaper and easier to configure, even an IT staff member of the printing company can handle the installation and maintenance of the private network. There is still a big difference between various service providers, so before signing a T1 contract with a service provider, you should carefully compare the various companies, prices, and their service levels. Services provided by Internet service providers such as AT&T, MCI Worldcom, and Level 3 communications companies are still the best, and some local small ISPs may not be able to provide the various high-quality services that users need.
Due to the economic weakness, another aspect that is affected in the high-end sector is the connectivity of Ethernet networks in big cities. Compared with traditional T1 lines, the value of this service is higher, but it requires more bandwidth, at least 10Mbps, thus promoting the development of broadband, these services will be the bright spot in the future.
Conclusion In the field of printing, although there are many hardware, software, and connection services available on the market for people to choose from, the use of digital technology to transfer files and submit jobs is still in the initial stages of development. One day we will lose CD-ROMs, DVDs, and other media used to transfer stored files. The arrival of this day is not far away.