founded 2002 headquarters boston massachusetts united states website www.exinda.com exinda is a company that sells computer networking hardware for improving the performance of wide area networks wans known as wan optimization . 1 2 3 contents 1 services 2 history 3 competition 4 references 5 external links services edit exinda sells and wan optimization network bandwidth management products to small and medium sized enterprises . 4 the exinda wan optimization appliance provides network management functions covering network optimization application visibility traffic control and application acceleration . its features help to optimize bandwidth utilization set policies to control peer to peer p2p and recreational internet traffic and ensure application performance over the wide area network wan . 5 6 exinda sells through commercial value added resellers vars . 7 history edit the company was originally formed in melbourne australia by con nikolouzakis chris siakos and anthony bodin in 2002 as exinda networks . its technology was based on research at the royal melbourne institute of technology . 8 openview venture partners of boston massachusetts invested 6 million us in the company in 2007 . 9 nikolouzakis was chief executive at the time and expected to add a boston sales office to focus on the us market . previously sales were reported to be mostly in europe and asia . 10 in october 2007 the company announced a 1.1 million contract with the government of malaysia . 11 in august 2008 michael sharma previously of platespin became ceo and nikolouzakis was named chief product officer . 12 by 2010 the company reported being based in toronto but keeping its official headquarters in the us . 13 in addition to exinda s presence in canada it also maintained small sales offices in a handful of other countries . 14 in march 2012 another 12 million investment round included investor greenspring associates . 15 the city of richmond california used exinda products to filter out video traffic from sites such as youtube . 16 in november 2014 exinda released updates to its network orchestrator product . the updates included integrated captive portal policies adaptive response quotas and http caching . 17 competition edit exinda s main competitors include aryaka blue coat cisco fatpipe networks f5 networks citrix ipanema technologies infineta systems radware sangfor technologies and riverbed technology . references edit in pictures top tools for wan optimisation . cio . retrieved 16 nov 2013 . exinda undergoes uk distie and management shake up . crn . retrieved 16 nov 2013 . exinda boosts traffic control to 10gbps . it world canada . retrieved 16 nov 2013 . ann bednarz 6 march 2008 . exinda retools branch office data center gear . network world . retrieved 13 june 2013 . exinda products how it works . corporate website . retrieved 2009 08 25 . kotadia mundir 1 february 2005 . employees to be billed for personal net use . cnet news . retrieved 2009 08 26 . ohlhorst frank 28 january 2008 . exinda makes wan optimization make sense . channel insider . retrieved 2009 08 25 . mahesh sharma 15 may 2008 . melbourne home to exinda r & d lab . the australian . retrieved 13 june 2013 . exinda networks secures 6 million of venture capital funding for u.s. market development . news release . 16 april 2007 . retrieved 13 june 2013 . ann bednarz 17 april 2007 . making headway in the u.s. exinda networks chief executive talks about u.s. expansion and unified performance management . network world . retrieved 13 june 2013 . exinda awarded a 1.1 m network deal in malaysia . boston business journal . 11 october 2007 . retrieved 13 june 2013 . exinda networks announces additions to executive team . news release . 8 august 2008 . retrieved 13 june 2013 . howard solomon 21 july 2010 . quad cpus gives exinda wan optimization a kick . it world canada . retrieved 13 june 2013 . lawson stephen 1 december 2006 . wan appliance underdog exinda pushes open standard . infoworld . retrieved 2009 08 25 . chris reidy 8 march 2012 . exinda raises 12m in series b funding . boston globe . retrieved 13 june 2013 . steve zurier 18 december 2012 . governments optimize wan traffic . state tech . retrieved 13 june 2013 . gina narcisi 4 december 2014 . exinda offers granular wan orchestration more control for users . techtarget . retrieved 31 december 2014 . external links edit corporate web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exinda & oldid 727676014 categories companies based in essex county massachusettscomputer companies of the united states 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 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