Radware
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Radware is a provider of integrated Application delivery
Application delivery network
An Application Delivery Network is a suite of technologies that, when deployed together, provide application availability, security, visibility, and acceleration. Gartner defines Application Delivery Networking as the combination of WAN optimization and Application Delivery Controllers...

, Network Security
Network security
In the field of networking, the area of network security consists of the provisions and policies adopted by the network administrator to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of the computer network and network-accessible resources...

 and Load balancing
Load balancing (computing)
Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...

 solutions based in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Radware, which is a member of the Rad Group
Rad Group
The RAD Group is a collection of independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry....

 of companies, is a public company and its shares are traded on NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

.

History

Radware was co-founded by Yehuda Zisapel and Zohar Zisapel
Zohar Zisapel
Zohar Zisapel , is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced hi-tech industry. The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, has been called "the world's most successful incubator" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.0 magazine.The Zisapels' RAD...

 in 1997. Roy Zisapel is the current President, CEO and Director. In 1999 the company had an initial public offering
Initial public offering
An initial public offering or stock market launch, is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. It can be used by either small or large companies to raise expansion capital and become publicly traded enterprises...

 and was listed on the NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

 stock exchange.

In 2001, Radware opened a development center in Har Hotzvim
Har Hotzvim
Har Hotzvim , also Campus of Science-Rich Industries is a high-tech industrial park located in northwest Jerusalem, Israel. It is the city's main zone for science-based and technology industries, among them Intel, Teva, Amdocs, NDS, Ophir Optronics, Sandvine, Radware and IDT Global Israel...

, Jerusalem, that focuses on the company's networking management systems (NMS) product line.

In April 2007, Radware acquired Covelight Systems, a provider of web application auditing and monitoring tools based Cary, North Carolina
Cary, North Carolina
Cary is a large town and suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina in Wake and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located almost entirely in Wake County, it is the second largest municipality in that county and the third largest municipality in The Triangle after Raleigh and Durham...

, for $16 USD million.

In February 2009 Radware acquired Nortel
Nortel
Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...

’s Application Delivery business (Alteon
Alteon WebSystems
Alteon WebSystems Incorporated , originally known as Alteon Networks, was an Internet infrastructure company based in San Jose, California.Alteon was acquired by Nortel Networks on October 4, 2000.-History:...

) and now offers them under a merged brand, Radware Alteon. The disposal by Nortel
Nortel
Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...

 was part of a move to reduce its debt and recover from Chapter 11.

Radware former VP of business development is businessman Yuval Tal
Yuval Tal
Yuval Tal is the founder and president of Payoneer, the global Internet-based payment solution.-Early life and personal:Tal was born in 1965 in Israel. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a special operations commander of an elite combat unit. During his military service, Tal was decorated...

, now president of Payoneer
Payoneer
Payoneer is an Internet-based financial services business that allows users to transfer money and receive payments through re-loadable prepaid MasterCard debit cards...

.

Sales markets

The company markets and sells its products worldwide through an indirect sales channel that includes distributors and resellers located in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Its customers cover all major industry segments including financial services
Financial services
Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies,...

, insurance, e-Commerce, manufacturing, retail, government, healthcare, education, transportation, services and carriers.

For the enterprise, Radware offers networking solution
Solution
In chemistry, a solution is a homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase. In such a mixture, a solute is dissolved in another substance, known as a solvent. The solvent does the dissolving.- Types of solutions :...

s for data center virtualization, cloud computing, application & WAN optimization, mobile communications, and security.

Core technology

The core technologies that make up Radware’s offering include:
  • Application Delivery Virtualization
    Virtualization
    Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources....

  • Global Load Balancing
    Load balancing (computing)
    Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...

  • VoIP Load Balancing
  • SIP
    SIP
    -Business and economics:* Sales Incentive Plan and Share Incentive Plan, employee motivation schemes* Systematic Investment Plan, investment strategy...

     Load Balancing
  • Application Acceleration
  • SSL Acceleration
    SSL acceleration
    SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator....

  • XML
    XML
    Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

     Acceleration/Security
  • MultiWAN Switching
  • Quality of Service
    Quality of service
    The quality of service refers to several related aspects of telephony and computer networks that allow the transport of traffic with special requirements...

     (QoS)
  • Web Application Firewalling
  • Network Intrusion Prevention
  • DPI
    DPI
    DPI may stand for* Dots per inch, a measure of printing resolution* Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, an educational institution of Bangladesh* Death Pact International, one of the first open source musical concept projects...

    /DFI
    DFI
    DFI, or Diamond Flower Inc., is a major motherboard manufacturer based in Taiwan.-History:DFI was first established in 1981 by Y.C Lu. At that time, DFI began as a graphics card maker with a turnover of 100 cards...


Partners

Radware partners with application and technology providers such as AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

, BEA Systems
BEA Systems
BEA Systems, Inc. specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products known as "middleware", which connect software applications to databases and was acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.- History :...

, Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc. is an enterprise software company with its corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C. and is primarily known as a developer of education software, in particular learning management systems. Blackboard was founded by CEO Michael Chasen and chairman Matthew Pittinsky in 1997 and...

, Blue Coat, ByteMobile, Finjan
Finjan
Update: Finjan is now part of .Founded in 1996, Finjan was headquartered in San Jose, California before being acquired by M86 Security in 2009...

, Forum Systems, HP, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, InfoSys, SAP AG
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

, Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...

, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, VMWare
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

, Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

, Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology is a technology company that specializes in improving the performance of networks and networked applications. It was founded May 23, 2002 by Jerry Kennelly and Steve McCanne in San Francisco, California where its world headquarters remains...

, and RSA.

See also

  • Application delivery
    Application delivery network
    An Application Delivery Network is a suite of technologies that, when deployed together, provide application availability, security, visibility, and acceleration. Gartner defines Application Delivery Networking as the combination of WAN optimization and Application Delivery Controllers...

  • Rad Group
    Rad Group
    The RAD Group is a collection of independent companies that develop, manufacture and market solutions for diverse segments of the networking and telecommunications industry....

  • Economy of Israel
    Economy of Israel
    The economy of Israel is a technologically advanced market economy, including a rapidly-developing high-tech and service sectors. As of 2010, Israel has the 24th largest economy in the world, and ranks 15th among 169 world nations on the UN's Human Development Index, which places it in the category...

  • Science and technology in Israel
    Science and technology in Israel
    Science and technology in Israel is one of the country's most developed sectors. The percentage of Israelis engaged in scientific and technological inquiry, and the amount spent on research and development in relation to gross domestic product , is amongst the highest in the world...


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