private company industry technology founded 1998 headquarters millerton new york usa and san jose california usa products equalizer application traffic management appliance website coyotepoint.com coyote point systems is a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management also known as server load balancing . the company introduced hardware based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as f5 networks in the late 1990s . 1 the company has its headquarters in san jose california and maintains engineering facilities in millerton new york usa . contents 1 history 2 products and technology 3 references 4 external links history edit early coyote point customers included wired for the hotwired web magazine and the online movie database imdb . 2 coyote point introduced several generations of new hardware and software with increasing performance and functionality winning industry and press awards including the 2006 network computing well connected award 3 and the info security global product excellence award . 4 the company s vlb technology which permits load balancing of vmware infrastructure was nominated for best of interop 2008 5 and sys con s virtualization journal readers choice awards . 6 in march 2013 the company was acquired by fortinet . 7 products and technology edit coyote point s products are generally deployed at data centers serving as front end aggregaters of an array of web or application servers . by monitoring server and application availability and responsiveness the equalizer line of load balancing appliances direct individual client requests to the server best able to handle them . layer 7 rules content switching direct requests to servers hosting specific applications or content . application acceleration technologies such as ssl acceleration and http compression are available on coyote s higher end products . custom hardware such as layer 2 switches and ssl offload processors and custom operating systems based on freebsd 8 are used in coyote point s appliances with performance of over 50 000 http transactions per second in network benchmarks . 9 references edit ohlhorst frank j. september 1 2010 . coyote point offers application balancing for virtual servers . linux journal . retrieved october 30 2013 . http findarticles.com p articles mi m0ein is 1998 july 7 ai 50147524 doherty sean april 24 2006 . 12th annual well connected awards network infrastructure . network computing.com . retrieved june 11 2013 . info security products guide product excellence award 2006 excellence in load balancing . silicon valley communications . 2006 . archived from the original on july 11 2006 . retrieved june 11 2013 . finalists 2008 . interop . 2008 . archived from the original on april 21 2008 . retrieved june 11 2013 . coyote point systems nominated for sys con s virtualization journal readers choice awards coyote point equalizer vlb nominated for best virtualization platforms high availability . ajaxworld . july 1 2008 . retrieved june 11 2013 . kontzer tony march 27 2013 . fortinet acquires adc vendor coyote point security vendor fortinet announced its acquisition of application delivery controller vendor coyote point systems . fortinet hopes the acquisition will boost its enterprise presence . network computing.com . retrieved june 11 2013 . kerner sean michael january 13 2009 . coyote point builds on freebsd to accelerate . internet news.com . retrieved june 11 2013 . coyote point systems inc. equalizer e350si competitive performance and feature evaluation versus barracuda networks load balancer 340 pdf . the tolly group . august 2008 . retrieved june 11 2013 . pdf external links edit coyote point systems web site lbdigest.com review of equalizer 8.0 software release linux journal on equalizer e550 infoworld on coyote point s product strategy retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title coyote point systems & oldid 738799272 categories networking hardware 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 11 september 2016 at 03 38 . 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