Tacit Networks
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Tacit Networks is an I.T.
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 company based in South Plainfield, New Jersey
South Plainfield, New Jersey
South Plainfield is a Borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 23,385....

. It was founded in 2000.

Their product lines are:
  • iShared which provides Wide area file services
    Wide area file services
    Wide area file services products allow remote office users to access and share files globally at LAN speeds over the WAN. Distributed enterprises that deploy WAFS solutions are able to consolidate storage to corporate datacenters, eliminating the need to back up and manage data that previously...

     and WAN optimization
    WAN Optimization
    WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for increasing data-transfer efficiencies across wide-area networks. In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion , and it will grow to $4.4 billion according to Gartner, a technology research firm.The most common measures of...

    .
  • Mobiliti (via the acquisition of Mobiliti
    Mobiliti
    Mobiliti was a file synchronization, backup and offline network software for Microsoft Windows based systems, developed by Packeteer. It was originally called Network/Unplugged when it was released in 1998 by Mobiliti, Inc. It started as a 3 member team of Kiran Somalwar, Dinesh Sinha and Ram...

    ) which provides backup, synchronization and offline access services to mobile users.


On January 30, 2004, Tacit Networks acquired the assets of AttachStor. The AttachStor technology provided the basis for the email acceleration feature in the iShared product.

On December 30, 2005, Tacit Networks acquired the assets of Mobiliti
Mobiliti
Mobiliti was a file synchronization, backup and offline network software for Microsoft Windows based systems, developed by Packeteer. It was originally called Network/Unplugged when it was released in 1998 by Mobiliti, Inc. It started as a 3 member team of Kiran Somalwar, Dinesh Sinha and Ram...

 and integrated the Mobiliti product line into its portfolio.

On May 15, 2006, Packeteer
Packeteer
Packeteer , founded in 1996 by Robert Packer and Brett Galloway, was an I.T. company based in Cupertino, California listed on the NASDAQ. Networking appliances focus on Application Traffic Management and optimization for wide area networks. They held at least 40 patents for various network...

acquired Tacit Networks and integrated the iShared and Mobiliti product lines into the Packeteer portfolio.

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