Mu Dynamics

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Mu Dynamics, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California + 5 Mu offices worldwide
Key people	CEO: Dave Kresse; Co-founder and VP Business Development: Ajit Sancheti; Co-founder and CTO: Kowsik Guruswamy
Industry	Network Operators: Remove Costly Downtime Weaknesses in VoIP, IPTV and IMS deployments that Result in Customer Churn; Vendors: Product Quality Improvement throughout Software Development Lifecycle SDLC
Products	Analysis, Software Testing, Fuzz testing engine for VoIP, IP Multimedia Subsystem, ITPV, SCADA or Industrial Ethernet Control Systems Safety, VoIP software and hardware, Storage products, Streaming Media, Routers, Software Security Assurance, Servers, Firewalls, Antivirus, and Intrusion Prevention products
Revenue	Privately-held
Employees	50+ (2008)
Website	http://www.mudynamics.com/

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Mu's solution measure service response time, reliability and availability at network operators (e.g., Cable Television, Broadband Internet and VoIP like Cox Communications, federal agencies, web services at large enterprises and their product, application and middleware vendor suppliers including Juniper Networks and F5 Networks. Users (i.e., telecommunications network operators, service providers or large enterprises) commonly run large distributed network infrastructures supporting the provision of IP-based next-generation converged services (e.g., VoIP, IMS or IPTV) and leverage proactive service assurance metrics to benchmark sophisticated product evaluation, operations and purchasing procedures across the entire deployment life cycle.

Product vendors (e.g., Unified Threat Management (UTM), data storage or VoIP vendors) use Mu analyzers for service assurance to increase product robustness and quality, improve reputation, enhance customer retention and remove service impacting weaknesses/vulnerabilities before product shipment. The end result of proactive service assurance is a reduction in the high cost of supporting customers that are experiencing downtime attributable to product quality defects, resulting in less downtime for customers and better Return on Investment for both IP software and hardware.

Mu Labs [1] also publishes advisories on responsibly remediated exploits discovered by and credited to the Mu development team. Open source tools & code as well as Mu research, Fuzz testing frameworks and code coverage best practices are available here. Mu Labs also regularly publishes a blog from co-founder and CTO Kowsik Guruswamy.

To date, Mu raised $24 million in three rounds of venture capital investment from Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Focus Ventures and DAG Ventures. The company participates in and contributes to numerous industry consortia including SIPit SIP Forum, PCI DSS, IMS Forum, CableLabs, Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA-99 WG4), Storage Networking Industry Association and the Telecommunications Industry Association.