palo alto ca key people darren kimura ; executive chairman dana matsunaga ; coo john smith ; founder and cto website www.liveaction.com liveaction inc. formerly known as actionpacked networks is a private network monitoring software company based in palo alto california history edit the company was founded in 2007 as a referentia systems inc. by john smith who had worked on the liveaction project for referentia . 1 liveaction then actionpacked networks received a 0.5 million seed investment in 2013 by enerdigm ventures . 2 in 2014 liveaction completed a 5.35 million series a round of financing . aitv led the investment round with participation from cisco investments and enerdigm ventures . 3 in 2016 liveaction completed a 36 million series b round of financing led by insight venture partners . accelerate it ventures and cisco investments also participated in the funding round . 4 channel reseller news crn mentioned actionpacked networks in 2012 . in 2013 it became the first cisco management partner to support the msi s rest based management interface v3 .1 . 5 technology edit the software combines network topology device and flow visualizations with direct interactive monitoring and configuration of quality of service netflow lan routing and other features inside cisco systems devices . 6 liveaction software combines a graphical interface that eliminates the need to use the cisco command line interface cli for complex netflow and qos operations . liveaction software was originally developed for the u.s. marine corps to simplify quality of service configuration and to reduce manpower required to manage mobile tactical networks . 7 the performance of traffic supported by each device can be assessed using live traffic displays such as that provided directly from router interfaces . 8 united states patent 9 003 292 system and method for network topology and flow visualization 9 united states patent 9 240 930 system for network flow visualization through network devices within network topology 10 united states patent 9 246 772 system and method for network topology and flow visualization 11 united states patent 9 350 622 method and system for real time visualization of network flow within network device 12 references edit actionpacked networks rebrands and launches as liveaction . retrieved 16 april 2015 . company overview of enerdigm ventures llc . bloombergbusiness . retrieved 16 april 2015 . liveaction secures 5.35 million series a financing from aitv and cisco investments . venturebeat . retrieved 16 april 2015 . liveaction secures 36m funding round . redherring . retrieved 1 march 2016 . actionpacked networks completes interoperability verification and testing of the live action software . cisco blogs . retrieved 16 april 2015 . kerravala zeus 17 march 2014 . troubleshooting cisco s iwan it all depends on network visibility . networkworld . retrieved 16 april 2015 . referentia spin off company actionpacked networks named one of the top 25 coolest emerging tech vendors by channel reseller news . referentia systems . retrieved 16 april 2015 . underwood mark 30 november 2010 . liveaction qos tool demystifies the management of cisco devices . techrepublic . retrieved 21 october 2015 . us patent 9003292 smith ; john kei honolulu hi pierce ; robert honolulu hi & pierce robert system and method for network topology and flow visualization issued 2015 04 07 assigned to liveaction inc. palo alto ca us patent 9240930 smith ; john kei honolulu hi pierce ; robert honolulu hi & pierce robert system for network flow visualization through network devices within network topology issued 2016 01 19 assigned to liveaction inc. palo alto ca us patent 9246772 smith ; john kei honolulu hi pierce ; robert honolulu hi & pierce robert system and method for network topology and flow visualization issued 2016 01 26 assigned to liveaction inc. palo alto ca us patent 9350622 smith ; john kei honolulu hi pierce ; robert honolulu hi & pierce robert method and system for real time visualization of network flow within network device issued 2016 05 24 assigned to liveaction inc. palo alto ca retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title liveaction & oldid 744075169 categories software companies based in californianetworking companies of the united statesnetwork managementnetwork analyzerscompanies based in palo alto california 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 12 october 2016 at 23 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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