Crescendo Networks, Ltd. was a privately held computer networking company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with regional offices in

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. ''Crescendo Networks'' is not to be confused with Crescendo Communications, Inc. a CDDI/FDDI network equipment manufacturer that

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Inc. acquired in 1993. Founded in 2002, Crescendo Networks manufactured and sold application delivery controllers which accelerate and optimize website and web application performance. On August 2011, company assets have been acquired by

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through liquidation proceedings in Israel. A number of key Crescendo employees joined F5's office in Tel Aviv.

Products

AppBeat DC
is a web-facing

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 server ...

that helps web applications serve more users and traffic, faster, with fewer resources. It accelerates web applications by offloading and consolidating common CPU intensive tasks. The product's purpose-built platform uses separate and dedicated hardware engines for each feature with multiple

network processors A network processor is an integrated circuit which has a feature set specifically targeted at the Computer networking, networking application domain. Network processors are typically software programmable devices and would have generic characteris ...

and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to deliver features such as TCP multiplexing and connection management, load balancing,

data compression In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression ...

, caching,

SSL acceleration TLS acceleration (formerly known as SSL acceleration) is a method of offloading processor-intensive public-key encryption for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to a hardware accelerator. Typically this ...

, and more.
AppBeat SC
is an application service controller designed to monitor multiple AppBeat DC application delivery controllers and provide insight into application behavior. It monitors and analyzes web applications and the state of the servers running them. The product gives users the option to be alerted via Twitter, as well as email or SNMP, if any degradation to their network is detected.David Diaz (November 5, 2009). �
Twitter Comes To The ADC Market
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External links

Crescendo Networks Home Page

Networking companies of the United States Electronics companies established in 2002 Companies based in Sunnyvale, California 2002 establishments in California