Bigfoot Unveils First Linux-based card FNAPP Killer, Bounty more news

Austin, TX (openPR) 21 November 2006

Bigfoot Networks, Inc, a research and development work, the first Flexible Network Architecture (FNA.TM) killer application? announced? ¢ Interface Card (NIC) to help ensure that online gaming safer and more secure.

FNApp called FNA Firewall, is an embedded application based firewall client that runs inside the Killer NIC, so that players off their firewall overload of the UC and continues playing with the security and optimal system performance. The firewall is iptables based firewall on the very popular open-source Linux. The FNA Firewall is available for download www.killernic.com.

was announced this summer with FNA to enable all free to write, download and run applications that run on the Killer’s Network Processing Unit.

Linux applications are designed so that users run an application with minimal impact or reduce the major embedded system processor, the memory subsystem, caching and hard disk. The possibilities are endless and can FNApps something simple packet monitoring utilities, full programs, VoIP, file-sharing systems and mini-game or chat servers.

“We want to play the FNA Firewall as enabling players with a Killer NIC for online games without sacrificing performance or safety to think about. With FNA Firewall is like putting armor on your computer, you can safely and with confidence into the game “said Harlan Beverly, co-founder and CEO of Bigfoot Networks.

FNA Firewall go to: www.killernic.com.

To support the release of the first FNApp FNApps industry and generate additional users of the Killer NIC, Bigfoot also launched the FNA bounty program for embedded Linux developers, players, game developers, or those who challenge the development of new FNApps want. The competition FNApp Bounty is designed to encourage the development of embedded Linux applications that run on the Killer card into one of three categories:

a Web server FNApp – 000 premiums for

2 Peer-2-Peer FNApp – 500 award for> BitTorrent, Kazaa, Gnutella, or the type of application 3 FNApp open category – 000 awards for the best and most creative idea (VoIP wget, packet recording, folding, monkey bots for game servers, client / server file sharing, development tools / AIDS, full game servers, or an interesting application of your choice)

Bigfoot Networks Killer NIC also provides the evaluation units for developers, this program ENTER. Developers interested in a murderer must eval Bigfoot Networks with their CV and proposal to bounty@bigfootnetworks.com FNApp contact. All FNApps be completely open source, and all submissions may be published on the website killernic.com. www.KillerNIC.com For more information FNApp Bounty and specific program rules and regulations.

“Some of the best programmers do not necessarily online gamers,” said Beverly. “We have a program specifically for FNApp Bounty programmers interested in gaining the development of applications that use the players we want. Giving Away The Killers eval is to inspire even in the Linux community about programming for the killer.”

Killer?
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Killer network interface card and powered by LLR Technology offers superior performance and speed to players in their games online. Killer’s 400 MHz Network Processing Unit (NPU) and 64MB of dedicated RAM is one of the first applications of Corporate Network Acceleration Technology introduced to the consumer market. The Killer NIC offers improved gaming performance, standard NIC functionality, and features a USB 2.0 port on board as part of its flexible architecture, network players to write their own applications to be run embedded Linux, the NPU. Killer runs on PCs running the Microsoft operating system Windows XP.

Bigfoot Networks is an innovative startup to make Austin the online gaming experience faster and more fun is dedicated. was founded with roots from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, the company from a team of Executive MBA graduates to products that improve the performance of the devices and the delays in the development of online video games. The company has won numerous awards, including 2005 Fortune Small Business Award 2005 and received the prestigious competition Corp Competition at the University of Texas. The company has received funding of U.S. $ Venio Capital Partners and is a member of the Austin Technology Incubator.

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