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Expand Networks, Inc.
Company typePrivate Company
IndustryWAN Acceleration Equipment
Founded1997
HeadquartersRoseland, New Jersey, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Key people
Liquidator: Paz Rimer
ProductsAccelerator appliances, WAN Optimization
Websitewww.expand.com

Expand Networks, Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a provider of WAN Optimization solutions, currently run by a Liquidator

About

Expand Networks is privately held. The company was founded in 1998; initial financing was provided by Discount Investment Corporation, The Eurocom Group, Ophir Holdings, and a private group of investors, including Memco Software founder Israel Mezin. Additional investors joined in subsequent rounds of funding. The company has raised over $95,000,000 since inception. [citation needed]

Expand Networks global headquarters is situated in Tel-Aviv, Israel with sales presence across the United States and Europe, New Jersey, Australia [6] China, [7], Singapore, and South Africa.

The company manufactures accelerators in physical [8], virtual [9] and mobile deployment deployment options.

Today the company’s technology includes Byte Level Caching and Dynamic Compression, Layer 7 Quality of Service(QoS)and Monitoring, Application and Protocol Acceleration, Wide Area File Services.

Expand Networks' competitors include; Blue Coat Systems, Cisco Systems, Exinda, Ipanema Technologies, Riverbed Technology.

Liquidation

In mid October 2011, following the requests of Plenus, one of the company's lenders, an Israeli court appointed a liquidator - Mr. Paz Rimer. The liquidator terminated 24 of the company's employees[1]. 67 of the company's remaining employees have filed with an Israeli court demanding that the court issue a liquidation order, a process by which a company is brought to an end. [2].

Acquisitions

In August, 2005 it was announced that Disksites technology was integrated into the Compass Platform through an OEM agreement[3] Expand later acquired Disksites’ intellectual property, technology, and product line fully integrating into Expand Networks in 2006[4]

In 2008, the company acquired NetPriva, an Australian software provider for $7,300,000 [10] NetPriva specialised in developing software only WAN Optimisation solutions. The acquisition of NetPriva led Expand to deliver a SoftWOC [11]. This solution was launched in 2009 as the Mobile Acceleration Client, or MACC[12]

Additional information

Expand Networks remains a privately held company, and therefore never discloses any of its trading figures to any external parties.

In 2008, the company's revenues were approximately $24,000,000, up from $20,000,000. In 2008, the company lost $13,900,000 - down from a loss of $17,500,000 in 2007.[5][6]

In early 2009, the company laid off an additional 20 employees, reducing its global headcount to 150, of which 80 are in Israel.[citation needed]

The company is attempting to raise an additional loan of $3,000,0000, giving participating shareholders an 8x preference. This is effectively a wash-out round giving the company a pre-money valuation of $0 as none of the current shareholders will see any income should the company be sold for less than $24,000,000[7][8]

Recently, the company has continued to attract interest from big industry players, with rumours of a potential acquisition by publicly listed competitive vendor Riverbed Technology in 2009[9]

References

  1. ^ Liquidator terminates 24 Expand employees [1]
  2. ^ Expand employees request a liquidation order [2]
  3. ^ [3] Source: news article by James Rogers, 15th May 2006
  4. ^ Source: IT Analysis news article 'Acquisition of Disksites'[4]
  5. ^ Expand Financial Reports Exposed: 14 million dollar loss, Calcalist
  6. ^ דו"חות אקספנד נחשפים: הפסד של 14 מיליון דולר
  7. ^ Expand continues to transmit signs of distress
  8. ^ אקספנד נטוורקס הקלה תנאים למלווה פוטנציאלי
  9. ^ Globes: Riverbed in Talks to Acquire Expand Networks, Nov 19th 2009 [5]