Allot Ltd., formerly Allot Communications, is an Israeli high-tech company that develops telecommunications software. The company is headquartered in Hod Hasharon, Israel.

History

Allot was founded in 1996, by Michael Shurman and Yigal Jacoby. By 2004, the company raised $38 million in several rounds of funding from several

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. In November 2006, it became a publicly traded company on the

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Global Market under the ticker symbol ALLT. The

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raised $78 million. In November 2010, Allot's dual listing on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange was approved. Allot provides network intelligence and network-based security products for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) of mobile broadband,

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, mobile satellite service, and

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carriers, as well as enterprises. In 2012, Allot acquired

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-based Ortiva Wireless, which specializes in optimizing video streaming across wireless networks, and Oversi Networks, a global provider of rich-media caching and content delivery for Internet video and peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. In February 2015, Allot acquired Optenet, an IT security company providing Security-as-a-Service products to service providers and enterprises, for $6.5 million. In January 2018, the company acquired Netonomy, a developer of software-based cybersecurity for the connected home.

Controversy

In 2011, it was reported that equipment sold by Allot has illegally reached

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. However, in January 2012 Allot was cleared by the

Israeli Ministry of Defense The Ministry of Defense ( he, מִשְׂרַד הַבִּטָּחוֹן, Misrad HaBitahon, Ministry of Security, acronym: he, משהב"ט) of the government of Israel, is the governmental department responsible for defending the State of Isra ...

of any wrongdoing, as the investigation concluded that the company was unaware that the internet monitoring equipment it sold to the Danish distributor ended up in Iranian hands. Also in 2011, Allot settled a class-action lawsuit regarding securities fraud involving its stock whereby it agreed to pay $1.3 million (USD).

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