C2C reduces Exchange and Outlook 2003 traffic by up to 75%.
MaX Compression Enterprise proves benefits for Exchange 2003 users.

25th August 2003

Test lab results have shown up to 75% reduction in traffic between Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 for attachments compressed with MaX Compression Enterprise. While Exchange 2003 reduces client to server traffic with Outlook 2003 through in-built data transfer improvements, the benefits of MaX Compression Enterprise build on this. Storage savings and reduction of inter-server and inbound / outbound Internet email traffic are some of the business-critical additional benefits of MaX Compression Enterprise.

MaX Compression Enterprise has been shown to reduce email traffic by an average 40% across Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. For most other common Exchange and Outlook version combinations on the LAN it also reduces bandwidth and storage needs by an average of up to 55% and up to 95% for individual emails.

"MaX Compression Enterprise has demonstrated that it can aid deployments of Exchange 2003 through its automated data compression," Said Chris Baker, group product manager for Exchange at Microsoft Corp. "We support C2C as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, as it continues to help Exchange 2003 organizations."

Dave Hunt, CEO of C2C said, "C2C's mission is to improve performance for Exchange users, and we are delighted that MaX Compression Enterprise continues to be of benefit for Exchange 2003. We have over 3 million users of MaX Compression and fully expect this to grow as users adopt Exchange 2003. Performance, resource usage and productivity are critical factors to organizations, and auto-compressed data on an enterprise scale benefits email users and administrators."

MaX Compression Enterprise provides automated compression and decompression of email attachments through components for Outlook, Outlook Web Access, Exchange Server and SMTP Gateway. Wherever an email travels or is stored across the Enterprise, it is compressed to its most efficient size for resource usage. The benefits of MaX Compression include better user productivity through invisible zipping and unzipping; reduced storage needs; reduced bandwidth requirements; quicker back-up and restore times and improved performance for remote users.

Test lab: Emails with attachments of varying sizes (22Kb to 6.6 Mb) and file types .xls, .doc were measured for traffic (bytes sent/received) on a network running Exchange 2003 RC1 and Outlook 2003. The traffic was then re-measured with the Outlook client of MaX Compression Enterprise compressing attachments. Full table of results available on request from press@c2c.com

C2C user feedback and testing of various Exchange / Outlook combinations has consistently shown a 55% average reduction across all email traffic. The recent test of attachments with Outlook 2002 and Exchange 2000 showed an average 80% reduction.

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