Exinda is a company that provides

computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or b ...

ing hardware for improving the performance of

wide area network A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits. Businesses, as well as schools and government entities, use ...

s (WANs), known as

WAN optimization WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for improving data transfer across wide area networks (WANs). In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion, and was to grow to $4.4 billion by 2014 according to Gartner, a techn ...

. In 2017, the company was acquired by GFI Software.

Services

As of 2008, Exinda provided

(WAN) bandwidth management products to small and medium-sized enterprises. The Exinda WAN optimization appliance provided

network management Network management is the process of administering and managing computer networks. Services provided by this discipline include fault analysis, performance management, provisioning of networks and maintaining quality of service. Network managem ...

functions covering network optimization, application visibility, traffic control and application acceleration. Policy-based throttling and packet compression prioritized bandwidth usage and controlled

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network, forming a peer-to-peer network of Node ...

(P2P) and recreational internet traffic. Exinda provided its products through commercial value-added resellers (VARs).

History

The company was originally formed in

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, by Con Nikolouzakis, Chris Siakos and Anthony Bodin in 2002 as Exinda Networks. Its technology was based on research at the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

. OpenView Venture Partners of

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, invested $6 million (US) in the company in 2007. Nikolouzakis was chief executive at the time, and expected to add a Boston sales office to focus on the US market. Previously sales were reported to be mostly in Europe and Asia. In October 2007, the company announced a $1.1 million contract with the government of

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. In August 2008 Michael Sharma (previously of PlateSpin) became CEO and Nikolouzakis was named chief product officer. By 2010, the company reported being based in

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, but keeping its official headquarters in the US. In addition to Exinda's presence in

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, it also maintained small sales offices in a handful of other countries. In March 2012, another $12 million investment round included investor Greenspring Associates. The city of

Richmond, California Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 3, 1905, and has a Richmond, California, City Council, city council.

used Exinda products to filter out video traffic from sites such as

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

. In November 2014, Exinda released updates to its Network Orchestrator product. The updates included integrated captive portal policies, adaptive response quotas, and HTTP caching.

References

External links

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