industry technology founded 2002 headquarters sunnyvale california products application delivery and load balancing website www.crescendonetworks.com crescendo networks ltd. was a privately held computer networking company headquartered in sunnyvale california with regional offices in emea and apac . crescendo networks is not to be confused with crescendo communications inc. a cddi fddi network equipment manufacturer that cisco systems inc. acquired in 1993 . founded in 2002 crescendo networks manufactured and sold application delivery controllers which accelerate and optimize website and web application performance . 1 on august 2011 company assets have been acquired by f5 networks through liquidation proceedings in israel . a number of key crescendo employees joined f5 s office in tel aviv . products edit appbeat dc is a web facing application delivery controller that helps web applications serve more users and traffic faster with fewer resources . 2 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 and field programmable gate arrays fpgas to deliver features such as tcp multiplexing and connection management load balancing data compression caching ssl acceleration and more . 3 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 . 4 references edit holly dolezalek march 26 2010 . application acceleration aficionados processor sue hildreth july 17 2009 . serious load balancing processor rich tehrani may 5 2010 . crescendo application delivery controllers scale as giant virtual adc tmcnet david diaz november 5 2009 . twitter comes to the adc market techcrunchit external links edit crescendo networks home page network world article about crescendo networks retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crescendo networks & oldid 647220712 categories networking companies of the united stateselectronics companies established in 2002companies based in sunnyvale california2002 establishments in 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 edit links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 08 59 . 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