Never use ftp again - Beehive introduces secure, easy to use, https file transfer.
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Never use ftp again - Beehive introduces secure, easy to use, https file transfer.
P R E S S R E L E A S E
Albuquerque, NM; February 6, 2002
For More Information contact: Mark Bennett at ph: 505-872-4445, or at email: mbennett@thebeehive.com
Beehive Software replaces ftp (File Transfer Protocol), the old insecure, hard to use, Internet standard for file transfer, with Beehive Https - a secure, easy to use, file transfer client for Mac, Windows, and Browser platforms.
Now anybody on the Internet, can securely send Gigabyte-sized files to any other user that has a current browser and an email address. This new secure file transfer breakthrough is designed to bring reliable, secure, file transfer solutions to the Graphic Arts, Newspaper, Medical Imaging and Engineering Reprographics industries (anywhere people are collaborating with large files).
The Beehive Https protocol brings printers, newspapers and other imagesetting companies 5 key file transfer improvements:
* Beehive Https is proxy server tolerant - there are no more blocked file transfers at corporate firewalls;
* Beehive Https uses SSL for completely secure file transmission - printers can now receive files from security conscious, legal, financial, DOD and medical clients;
* Beehive Https uses the Apache web server as the file server - printers no longer have to run an ftp server in addition to their web server;
* Beehive Https has built-in, streaming file compression - users do not have to pre-compress files;
* Beehive Https is multi-platform (Mac, Windows, Browser, Linux) - file transfers are available to any user.
Beehive Https is the final piece of a Beehive 7 part file transfer framework:
1) Simple as 1-2-3, drag and drop folder sending utilities for Macintosh, and Windows Desktop Interfaces.
Sending files in a production environment is as Simple as: (1) - dragging the folder onto the Beehive icon, (2) - Filling out the form that pops open, and (3) - Clicking "Send".
2) Web email style interface, similar to Hotmail or Yahoo for Browser users.
Web email users are comfortable with the user interface of web-based email but are discouraged with the inability of email to deliver large files - Beehive https has no file size limits.
3) Smart html forms for creating job tickets, order forms, quoting forms and more.
Using any standard html editor, administrators can create virtually any form for use with Beehive. Beehive supplies a variety of templates for such applications as on-line quoting, job tickets, on-line proof rendering, auto-printing of courier shipping forms, auto-cataloging of digital assets and more.
4) Automated file processing agents for Macintosh, Windows and LINUX.
Beehive provides the printing facility with their choice of Macintosh, Windows or LINUX file processing agents for automatic handling of received files. These agents save considerable processing time at the printing facility by moving files, deleting files from the server, decoding Macbinary files, decompressing files, printing forms, sending receipts and notifications and executing any scripts that are loaded.
5) Internet Service Protocol for automatic updates and administration of the file transfer network.
Administrators will never have to distribute file transfer client upgrades again! All clients, Macintosh, Windows and Browser can automatically check the central administrative site for new forms, images and software versions.
6) Internet Appliance or ASP Subscription Implementation options.
Beehive Software is sold in two ways : as an Appliance or as an ASP. As an appliance, Beehive is $1995. As an ASP, Beehive costs $65.95 a month - about the price of a cell phone!
7) Beehive Https - Secure, proxy-tolerant, standards-based, file transfer with file compression.
Beehive Https uses the de facto Internet standard for web servers - Apache; this ensures that virtually any environment can run Beehive Https. In addition to using SSL to ensure that file transfers are secure, Beehive Https also encapsulates a variety of special file transfer functions into the Https protocol suite to enhance its functionality. For instance, Beehive Https encapsulates built-in "On-the-Fly" streaming file compression, which removes the overhead of pre-compressing files and simplifies the sending process.
Beehive (including its private label versions) is the most widely installed secure file transfer software in the printing, prepress and newspaper industries with over 1200 site licenses and 20,000 end users. Beehive is private labeled under several names including File Transfer Central by RR Donnelley, PipLink by PIP Printing, DAX2 by Torque Systems, and ReproNet by Service Point (U.K.). Beehive also runs at most Gannett newspapers.
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