D-Link, a designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics, voice, data and video communications solutions, announced partnership with
Cymphonix, a company that uses Secure Web Gateway (
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Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will integrate the Cymphonix Xli technology with the D-Link (
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Wishfi opened up the way for intelligent and targeted information delivery strategies intended to provide customized, income-generating content messaging for hospitality and visitor-based networks environments like cafes, restaurants, coffee shops, executive office suites and hotel franchise locations.
Brent Nixon, the president and chief executive officer of Cymphonix (
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The Wishfi MediaSpace of D-Link provides targeted information as part of the browser window as users in hospitality or visitor-based networks log into the Internet. The displayed information would vary from sponsored advertisements to targeted internal messaging. Cymphonix Xli OS is in harmony with the browser traffic and is content-aware'. This allows a very specific match of sponsored information to the interest of the user.
Nick Tidd (
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D-Link was also in news for offering its customers a
lifetime warranty on switches.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha's article, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Stefania Viscusi