delivery networking founded 2000 headquarters milpitas california products apv series application delivery controllers ag series ssl vpn avx series virtualized appliances acelera wan optimization controllers website official website array networks is an american networking hardware company . it sells network traffic encryption tools . 1 array networks was founded in 2000 by lawrence lu and is based in milpitas california . 2 originally called clickarray networks it was renamed array networks in 2001 by then incoming ceo don massaro who said the longer name sounded too dot commy . 3 it received funding from the venture capital firm u.s. venture partners and the private equity firm h & q asia pacific . 4 on may 13 2009 1 array networks became the first non taiwan company to be listed on the taiwan stock exchange . 5 the company sold 54 million shares that had a total value of about 79 million . 1 in 2009 43 % of the company s market share was in china and its main product type sold there consisted of ssl vpn devices . it also had 200 employees in china which ceo michael zhao said made china a natural choice for an ipo . 1 in comparison the company had 70 employees in silicon valley . 4 but because china did not allow non chinese companies on their exchange he narrowed the choices down to the nasdaq and the taiwan stock exchange . he chose the taiwan stock exchange for two reasons array networks had a strong business presence in asia and taiwan stock exchange s listing fees were at least one third less than the nasdaq s. 1 in 2011 crn magazine noted that most of array networks sales is from asia and that the company is particularly strong in china japan and india . 2 apv series application delivery controllers in 2008 array networks first introduced its appvelocity apv series that consists of application delivery controllers for ssl acceleration load balancing and traffic managementat layers 2 7 for enterprise data centers and web sites . 6 in 2013 array released the apv 2600 5600 10600 and 10650 appliances . 7 in 2014 array released the virtual avx10650 multi tenant application delivery controller that has 8 fully partitioned adc instances to support multiple load balancing as a service lbaas tenants enterprise departments or applications or similar shared environments . 8 in 2015 array released a multi tenant virtualized avx10650 adc appliance that offers 4 8 12 or 16 fully independent instances each with its own i o cpu ssl card and memory . 9 ag series ssl vpn secure access gateways for enterprise platforms array s ag series secure access gateways provide scalable mobile ready secure access to enterprise applications and cloud services . the ag series enables anytime anywhere access from any device whilst protecting the data being transmitted . 10 remote desktop access array networks launched desktopdirect to enable users access to remote desktops from a standard web browser . 11 desktopdirect can remotely boot up pcs that are in the off or standby states . the user browses to a specific url to access the registration portal . the user logs in upon seeing a prompt for credentials enters the hostname and description of the desktop pc and registration is complete . secure mobile access for remote desktop access via a mobile device motionpro allows users to access their desktop using their own personal mobile device . 12 motionpro enables byod and business mobility by provisioning securing and providing connectivity to native and web apps from tablets and smart phones . acelera wan optimization controller in march 2013 array acquired the assets of woc pioneer certeon including development and support operations . 13 as a result of the acquisition array added software based wan optimization products including the acelera virtual appliance acelera for windows server and acelera mobile to its portfolio . the acelera virtual appliance is available on vmware esx esxi microsoft hyper v citrix xenserver and windows server 2008 r2 and as a mobile client for windows xp and windows 7 . 14 the acelera appliance can be used to accelerate application traffic for microsoft oracle sap ibm dell file transfers backup and replication and others . 15 in 2014 array introduced the wan1100 a tabletop device with throughput of 10 mbit s and the capability to handle up to 40 concurrent tcp connections . 16 references edit a b c d e buley taylor 2009 05 19 . shunning nasdaq . forbes . archived from the original on 2015 04 30 . retrieved 2015 04 30 . a b berndtson chad . 2011 03 24 . array networks looks to build u.s. presence behind new channel program pages 1 and 2 . crn magazine . archived from the original pages 1 and 2 on 2015 04 30 . retrieved 2015 04 30 . delevett peter 2001 11 27 . san jose mercury news calif. wiretap column . . san jose mercury news . archived from the original on 2015 04 30 . retrieved 2015 04 30 via highbeam research . subscription required help . a b harris scott duke 2009 05 13 . harris milpitas company offshores its ipo . san jose mercury news . archived from the original on 2015 04 30 . retrieved 2015 04 30 . austin scott 2009 07 23 . the daily start up sorting through the zappos chatter . the wall street journal . archived from the original on 2015 05 01 . retrieved 2015 05 01 . ann bednarz array networks on a green streak network world april 3 2008 array networks ships new application delivery controller line database trends and applications may 13 2013 rahul arora array announces availability of avx10650 multi tenant adc appliance tmcnet.com july 16 2014 array announces the second generation of the avx10650 virtualized application delivery controller nss february 3 2015 ann bednarz vpls deploys virtual secure access gateway to provide customers direct cloud connectivity whir november 19 2014 jim carlton the pc goes on an energy diet wall street journal september 8 2009 tony bradley merging iphone and business there is an app for that pc world january 26 2010 gartner com magic quadrant for wan optimization controllers gartner.com magic quadrant for wan optimization controllers scribd april 29 2013 acelera virtual appliance for application acceleration searchenterprisewan jim metzler and rolf mcclellan certeon s acelera virtual appliance for acceleration product brief june 2008 sonia groff icymi array unveils low cost wan optimization searchnetworking august 20 2014 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title array networks & oldid 729589896 categories companies based in milpitas californianetworking companies of the united statesnetworking hardware companiestechnology companies established in 2001hidden categories pages containing links to subscription only content 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 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