Exinda is a company that provides

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ing hardware for improving the performance of

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s (WANs), known as

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. 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

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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. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...

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

History

The company was originally formed in Melbourne, Australia, by Con Nikolouzakis, Chris Siakos and Anthony Bodin in 2002 as Exinda Networks. Its technology was based on research at the

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. OpenView Venture Partners of Boston, Massachusetts, 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

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

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. 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

* {{Official website, http://www.exinda.com/ Companies based in Essex County, Massachusetts Defunct computer companies of the United States Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts Defunct computer hardware companies 2017 mergers and acquisitions