Feb 17, 2006. Higher performance Gigabyte Express 7 T2 and Inexpensive Gigabyte Express 7 Home Released.

Gigabyte Express 7 for Windows is now available. Standard features in Gigabyte Express 7 include Encryption, Simultaneous Dial and Answer, and Faster-than-FTP operation.

The product line has been expanded at both the high and low end, the Gigabyte Express 7 for Windows product lineup now includes:

• Gigabyte Express T2, recommended for international and domestic multi-megabit links (benefits up to 20 megabits/sec) with latencies(ping-times) from 30 to 700 milliseconds. This product includes Niwot's patented RELIA™ technology which overcomes packet loss without requiring retransmission.
  List price for Gigabyte Express T2(4+4) that supports 4 dial and 4 answer sessions is $1890 per year.
• Gigabyte Express T1, recommended for international megabit links (benefits up to 4 megabits/sec) with latencies(ping-times) from 60 to 700 milliseconds. This product includes Niwot's patented RELIA™ technology which overcomes packet loss without requiring retransmission.
  List price for Gigabyte Express T1(4+4) that supports 4 dial and 4 answer sessions is $814 per year.
• Gigabyte Express DSL, recommended for automated operation over domestic links up to 4 megabits/sec with latencies(ping times) up to 200 milliseconsds.
  This product supports up to 32 simultaneous sessions with a mix of dials and answers.
  List price for Gigabyte Express DSL(4+4) that supports 4 dial and 4 answer sessions is $238 per year.
• Gigabyte Express DSL Home, recommended for manual operation over domestic links up to 4 megabits/sec with latencies(ping times) up to 200 milliseconsds.
  This product supports a single dial session and a single answer session and manual operation. The Gigabyte Express DSL Home non-expiring license list price is $95.

Feb 10, 2006. You've Got Files! Version 2.415 Released with 5X faster FTP client.

The FTP client within you've Got Files! is 5X faster and all known causes of spurious notifications when monitoring an FTP site have been removed.
Corporate Licenses can use the combination of OldfileDetectInMinutes and NiwotFTPTool to detect, archive, and remove old files from FTP sites.
Corporate Licenses can use Include/Exclude FileNames and Folder Names in conjunction with OldfileDetectInMinutes.
The directory listings being compared now include the local machine's offset from UTC time when the directory was generated in both FTP scans an local scans, and notifications are not generated if the time offsets have changed.
NiwotFTPTool can handle retrieving (and optionally deleting) large files.

May 23, 2005. Gigabyte Express version 5.206 released with AutoGet and Multi-Gigabyte file support.

Gigabyte Express is a mission-critical, business-to-business bulk data transfer solution that replaces traditional File Transfer Protocol (FTP).  Versions 5.206 and 3.206 support AutoGet automated file retrieval and multi-gigabyte files. Customer and internal performance tests indicate that Gigabyte Express 5 is the fastest file transfer product on the market, achieving tenfold performance over FTP on international links.

"Some customers want to initiate all file transfers and not allow any incoming TCP connections through their firewalls,  now they can keep their firewall closed and use AutoGet to automatically retrieve files." said Bill Gibson, President and CTO of Niwot Networks. "Many customers are finding they need to automatically send and receive DVD images and multiple CD images, and we now support 64 bit file and transaction sizes."

May 17, 2005. US Patent 6,895,019 granted for RELIA technology as an extension of TCP

The United States Patent Office assigned Patent Number 6,895,019 to Niwot's RELIA™ Technology when implemented within the framework of TCP. Initially filed on May 1, 1998, this Patent was granted on May 17, 2005.

“The claims in this patent cover the implementation of error correcting algorithms along with retransmission using TCP packets instead of UDP packets” said Bill Gibson, President and CTO of Niwot Networks. “The original RELIA patent covers the combination of information recovery using parity packets and the ability to retransmit should the recovery be unsuccessful.”

Feb 28, 2005. Gigabyte Express Encryption for Export.

The United States Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security ECCN number for Gigabyte Express is 5D002. The Licensing Officer's note is "This encryption item is authorized for license exception ENC under Sections 740.17 (A) and (B)(3) of the Export Administration Regulations."
All Gigabyte Express versions contain encryption code.

Gigabyte Express encryption is 128 bit AES/Rijndael running in "ECB" or Electronic Codebook mode Key exchange is 512 bit RSA/Diffie-Hellman. The initiating (dial) and answering sides must have matching username/password for the encryption/decryption to be successful.

Oct 18, 2004. You've Got Files! version 2.401 supports AUTH and multiple SMTP servers.

You've Got Files! now supports SMTP authentication using "AUTH" and "POP3 before SMTP" over multiple SMTP servers.
NiwotFTPtool utility is now included with You've Got Files!, enables customers to download and optionally delete the newly-arrived file from the monitored FTP site.
The DontNotifyOnChange, DontNotifyOnAdd and ExcludeFoldersNamed features allow you to inhibit notifications from temporary folders.

Sep 3, 2002. US Patent 6,445,717 granted for RELIA technology using UDP

The United States Patent Office assigned Patent Number 6,445,717 to Niwot's RELIA™ Technology. Initially filed on May 1, 1998, the Patent was granted on September 3, 2002 as a system for recovering lost information in a data stream. RELIA adds parity to the TCP algorithm, and sends packets as UDP packets.

With existing TCP algorithms, software detects corrupted or missing information packets and retransmits the lost information. The RELIA patent covers the combination of information recovery using parity packets and the ability to retransmit should the recovery be unsuccessful. RELIA technology is the logical next step for environments which suffer from the combination of packet loss and longer delay, e.g. the international and satellite Internet.

“Lost information packets are a fact of life on the Internet,” said Bill Gibson, President and CTO of Niwot Networks. “RELIA sends a little extra data to allow the receiver to recover the lost information. This eliminates the wait time and the retransmission associated with lost information. With RELIA, your data moves efficiently even when information is being lost. Think of it as RAID for the Internet.”

One of the world’s largest multinational conglomerates sends thousands of files from California to India on a daily basis for remote processing. According to one of their Sr. Systems Engineer, “When using TCP/IP to send 145MB of image files to India it took us 8 hours to complete the transmission and when sending the same amount using RELIA, it took 40 minutes. Unbelievable difference! We literally watched files fly out of here! I would recommend RELIA as a transport method in any WAN environment.”