controller founded 2008 headquarters dublin ireland key people jonathon erington mericot jennings products proxy server http accelerator web cache ddos mitigation slogan scaling websites made simple website aiscaler.com aiscaler ltd. is a multinational software company founded in 2008 . it develops application delivery controllers designed to allow dynamic web pages to scale content by intelligently caching frequently requested content . a number of websites in the alexa top 1000 use aiscaler to manage their traffic . 1 2 aiscaler software can be deployed either on public cloud computing platforms such as amazon web services 3 or private virtual environments . aiscaler software is considered an edge device as it proxies traffic augmenting or replacing content delivery networks endpoints . 4 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit aiscaler started as a project in 1994 by the web development company wbs . the project was called jxel short for java accelerator . the technology was java based and intended to be run on a java virtual machine sharing the same computer system as the http server . it was re written in 2009 using the c computer language occupying its own dedicated server . the new software was rewritten to run on linux only taking advantage of changes in the input output model based on epoll . in july 2008 aiscaler ltd acquired all technology of wbs for 3.8 million allowing it to focus on selling web acceleration products . 5 until 2013 aiscaler was known as aicache producing a product called aiscaler . the company took over the name of its main product phasing out the brand name aicache . 6 products edit all aiscaler products can be categorized as application delivery controllers aiscaler is an http accelerator that provides application delivery control in addition to scaling and acceleration of content delivery 7 aiprotect offers protection against ddos attacks and sql injections 8 aimobile is a mobile content management system aicdn is a cloud based application delivery network that allows scaling of dynamic web applications . aiscaler and dell offer a hardware application delivery controller which fits in a standard rack unit server rack . 9 aiscaler is based on epoll technology allowing it to employ a right threaded only the specified number of workers process requests no matter how many clients are connected non blocking multiplexed io design . 10 references edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . january 2012 external links edit official development web site aicache deployment cnbc june 9 2009 highscalability.com article by director of platforms cnbc rashid karimov describing the implementation of the aicache software as an edge device . http highscalability.com blog 2009 4 16 serving 250m quotesday at cnbccom with aicache.html http www.foetron.com portfolio aicache and woot com chooses aicache web accelerator instances running on the amazon ec2 cloud to manage traffic spikes https aws.amazon.com marketplace pp b007ooipfm ref mkt ste l2 webapps f3 nc1 h l2 wa http dyn.com blog how to save money on your cdn with dyn aiscaler http www.crunchbase.com company aiscaler com http aiscaler.com about http aiscaler.com performance reports http aiscaler.com home protect http aiscaler.com dell hardware application delivery controller aiscaler admin guide jan. 14 2011 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aiscaler & oldid 723868624 categories network performanceinternet architecturenetwork managementservers computing routinghidden categories articles to be expanded from january 2012all articles to be expandedarticles with empty sections from january 2012all articles with empty sectionsarticles using small message boxes 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 5 june 2016 at 19 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