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BRIDGEWORKS
Bridgeworks Showcases AI WAN
Acceleration in Washington DC
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist
The British Embassy in Washington DC recently hosted a Thought Leadership event and reception
and invited a select number of British companies to showcase artificial intelligence (AI) and zero trust
architecture (ZTA) solutions.
L-r Mark Prater, Phil Hill, Jamie Eykyn,
David Trossell, Antony Reynolds
The welcoming speech was
delivered by Jamie Eykyn,
Chairman of Bridgeworks,
a British-based technology
firm. This was the second time
Eykyn gave a presentation at
a British Embassy. The first
time was in Paris, France,
50 years ago. He presented
a new electronic ticket
machine, which was designed
for operation on trams and
buses. He also founded Shuttle
Technology Ltd that was
sold SCM Microsystems in
1999. Following the sale, he
concentrated on building a
portfolio of transformational
technology companies. It
included award-winning
company, Bridgeworks.
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In his speech in Washington, he
said: “The world of technology
has advanced immeasurably in
the 50 years since I was involved
developing digital ticketing systems.
From point solutions to specific
problems, to integrated management
systems. Nowadays, there’s also
the deployment of advanced AI
and cloud-based high-speed
communications and compute, and
the ability to co-ordinate a multitude
of activities from a bewildering
number of data collection points in
virtual real-time across, for example,
a battlefield.”
His company of the time, the
electronic ticketing machine firm, was
the first to use a microprocessor and
solid state memory in the machines.
While it may sound old hat today.
However, in the 1970s they were
cutting-edge.
His record of innovation shows
why he backs Bridgeworks –
personally and as Chairman.
Bridgeworks’ products use WAN
Acceleration, and like his ticketing
machine in the 1970s, it is both
innovative and unique at a point
when most of the focus is on SDWANs and WAN Optimisation.
After all, there is good reason for
him to be proud of Bridgeworks’
award-winning WAN Acceleration
technology as it is re-defining
Wide Area Networks (WANs).
Organisations have found that with
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the help of the firm’s solutions, they
can reach backup, recovery, and
deduplication speeds up to 200x
faster than they would otherwise
have achieved. The company’s
Patented AI technology drastically
alleviates the effects of latency and
packet loss, maximising business
performance with dramatic ROI.
Exclusive embassy invitation
Bridgeworks, based in Lymington,
Hampshire, UK, was invited last
month to present their awardwinning A.I. technologies to U.S.
government and industry leaders
to highlight the best in British
technology.
Don Lutes, Senior Advisor