Crescendo Networks
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| Crescendo Networks, LTD. | |
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| Type | Privately held |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California |
| Industry | Application Acceleration Equipment, Application Delivery Controller |
| Products | Maestro, CN series |
| Website | www.crescendonetworks.com |
Crescendo Networks is a company dealing in the Application Delivery Controller market. The company develops a dedicated hardware based appliance which aims to improve web server tiers utilization by offloading them from different tasks e.g.: TCP termination and multiplexing, SSL offload, Content Compression and Server Load Balancing.
Crescendo manufactures and sells application acceleration appliances designed to optimize and accelerate application content delivery, improve the quality of the end user experience and deliver immediate ROI on existing data center infrastructure. Crescendo's Maestro is based upon purpose built hardware with dedicated cpu and memory resources for each ADC function. Maestro logically front ends server farms (clusters) and intelligently optimizes and accelerates content delivery from application resources to the end user. Maestro provides TCP termination and acceleration, SSL acceleration, traffic shaping, compression and load balancing.
Crescendo's ALP (Application Layer Processing) product accelerates all application tiers within the data center by queing user requests and intelligently scheduling those requests to the most available application resources within the data center.
Crescendo is also known for running one of the best support organizations in the Application Delivery Control market[1]. The strong support structure, coupled with the relative simplicity in the setup and configuration of its appliances, has helped solidify Crescendo's place as one of the top ADC vendors operating today.
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Crescendo Networks is not to be confused with Crescendo Communications, Inc. a CDDI/FDDI network equipment manufacturer that Cisco Systems Inc. acquired in 1993.
Cisco Systems Finalizes Agreement to Acquire Crescendo Communications MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 24, 1993 -- Cisco Systems today announced the completion of its acquisition of Crescendo Communications, Inc., a privately held networking company providing high-performance workgroup solutions to the desktop. Cisco and Crescendo signed an agreement on September 20, 1993 pursuant to which Cisco would acquire all outstanding stock and assume all outstanding employee stock options and warrants of Crescendo in exchange for 2,000,000 shares of Cisco common stock. The closing sale price for Cisco common stock on NASDAQ on Sept. 23 was $47.25 per share. Completion of the acquisition was subject to approval of Crescendo's shareholders, which was received on September 23, 1993.
In announcing the agreement on Sept. 21, Cisco president and CEO John Morgridge said, "The acquisition of Crescendo equips Cisco with a technology that will permit us even greater responsiveness to the requirements of our traditional workgroup market."
