aiScaler Ltd. is a multinational

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company founded in 2008. It develops

application delivery controller An application delivery controller (ADC) is a computer network device in a datacenter, often part of an application delivery network (ADN), that helps perform common tasks, such as those done by web accelerators to remove load from the web servers ...

s designed to allow dynamic web pages to scale content by intelligently caching frequently requested content. A number of websites in the

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top 1000 use aiScaler to manage their traffic. aiScaler software can be deployed either on public

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platforms such as

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or private virtual environments. aiScaler software is considered an

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as it proxies traffic, augmenting or replacing

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s endpoints.

History

aiScaler started as a project in 1994 by the web development company WBS. The project was called "Jxel", short for Java Accelerator. The technology was

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-based and intended to be run on a Java Virtual Machine sharing the same computer system as the HTTP server. It was re-written in 2009 using the C computer language, occupying its own dedicated server. The new software was rewritten to run on Linux only, taking advantage of changes in the input/output model based on

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. In July 2008, aiScaler Ltd acquired all technology of WBS for $3.8 million. Until 2013, aiScaler was known as "aiCache", producing a product called aiScaler. The company took over the name of its main product, phasing out the brand name aiCache.

Products

All aiScaler products can be categorized as

Application Delivery Controller An application delivery controller (ADC) is a computer network device in a datacenter, often part of an application delivery network (ADN), that helps perform common tasks, such as those done by web accelerators to remove load from the web servers ...

s *aiScaler is an HTTP accelerator that provides application delivery control, in addition to scaling and acceleration of content delivery *aiProtect offers protection against DDoS attacks and

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s *aiMobile is a Mobile content management system *aiCDN is a cloud-based Application Delivery Network that allows scaling of dynamic web applications. *aiScaler and Dell offer a hardware Application Delivery Controller, which fits in a standard rack unit server rack. aiScaler is based on

technology allowing it to employ a right-threaded (only the specified number of workers process requests, no matter how many clients are connected), non-blocking, multiplexed IO design. "aiScaler Admin Guide", Jan. 14, 2011
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References

External links

Official development web site
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, June 9, 2009 ''Highscalability.com'' article by Director of Platforms CNBC Rashid Karimov describing the implementation of the aicache software as an edge device. {{Reflist Network performance Internet architecture Servers (computing) Routing