video surveillance founded 2003 headquarters atlanta georgia united states products digital matrix switch network attached storage number of employees 50 2007 website www.steelbox.com steelbox networks inc. was a privately owned company that engineered devices to distribute store and retrieve large amounts of video data across ip networks . the company was noted for revolutionizing the video surveillance industry through the development of a specialized digital operating system rtik addressing specific needs of video security networks such as problems with large scale storage and playback control . the technology provides secure paths to distribute store and playback large amounts of live and recorded video . its primary customer base was businesses and organizations that use video monitoring systems such as law enforcement military and transportation . contents 1 corporate history 1.1 founders 2 sample of customers 3 a critic 4 external links corporate history edit steelbox was founded in 2003 in atlanta georgia by six engineers most of whom have worked together for 20 years and completed projects for cisco systems scientific atlanta and nortel networks . the core team developed the operating system behind the cisco pix firewall which is widely used throughout the world today . the team also developed the concept of load balancing a technology that speeds up the flow of information over the internet by determining the best way to route data requests to the most appropriate sources . prior to steelbox the founders worked for pharsalia technologies which was led by steelbox ceo richard chip howes . howes holds 30 patents for designs related to securing and speeding the flow of information over the internet . founders edit richard chip howes bill leblanc jim jordan tom bohannon scott higgins bill vaughan sample of customers edit uk highways agency moscow metro national roads telecommunication services port of oostende belgium products solutions a critic edit the new york city transit authority purchased 36 of these units along with a dmss for each and had nothing but problems . after a multitude of firmware updates visits by their field engineers and failures in the field they wished they had gone with another vendor such as nice or teleste . it is not surprising that the company is now closed . robert marshall cta nycta non verifiable quote the units described in this quote are the 5600 nas . this was a new product built explicitly for the nycta because of their cabinet depth requirement . the 5600s were linux nas units not steelbox switches dmss . external links edit steelbox networks official site atlanta s steelbox lives on retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title steelbox networks & oldid 743264367 categories companies established in 2003companies based in atlantanetworking companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 21 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view