Legit Reviews: Axentra HipServ 2.0

The $99 HipServ Plug Computer

Our lives have steadily been advancing from analog forms of storage like tape cassette movies and paper photos to digital movies and photos. Along with this digitization of our lives we are now sharing these sentimental bytes with friends and family via the Internet. When deciding on how to safely store these precious moments, a NAS typically comes to mind.  Axentra has taken the idea of the NAS one step with their HipServ Plug that we showed you back in February 2009. Unlike the standard NAS, the HipServ Plug features a low-power microprocessor and a functional operating system running an HTTP server. With this HTTP server Axentra has opened up access of your HipServ from your local network to the Internet.  This blend of software and hardware has made it possible to stream movies and music from your home NAS while on the road and to share photos and movies with friends and family.

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Axentra® Celebrates 5 Years of Award Winning Home Server Innovation

Ottawa, Canada – (October 10, 2008) – Axentra® Corporation celebrates five years of successful home server innovation and market lead. Since October 2003 Axentra has launched commercial home servers in North America and Europe ad has positioned itself as the pioneer and the leader of the category with both its own devices and through OEM- and telco-branded versions of its products.

• October 2003: Axentra launches Rumba, the world first consumer home gateway/server with built-in secure remote access and sharing. A small form factor unit, Rumba was available through computer retail catalogues and online stores.
• October 2004: Axentra launches NetBox, the world first consumer home gateway/server available at retail in North-America, winner of the CES 2005 G4Tech Best of Show Award. A powerful line of home servers, the Net-Box series popularized the concept through retail channels in the US and the UK.
• October 2007: Axentra and LaCie launch the LaCie ED-Mini Home Edition HipServ Home Media Server, the world’s first mass-market embedded home media server, winner of the 2007 Digital Lifestyle Best of Show Award. The LaCie ED mini Home Edition, still available today at retail around the world, rapidly became a resounding success combining state of the art software with sleek and powerful hardware all packaged and sold for a very affordable price.
• October 2008: Axentra, LaCie and France Telecom’s Orange launch the Orange Internet Space Media Server, the world’s first home server deployed by a leading service provider.

“Axentra’s technology lead and market vision has driven the home server from a niche product made for advanced user to a key digital home building block widely embraced by the CE and telco industries and consumers alike” said Marc-Antoine Benglia, CEO of Axentra. “We are proud to be a key contributor to the development of the digital home ecosystem and we are looking forward to bring further Home Server innovation in 2009 with a revised version of HipServ and an ever expanding computing platform support”.