Coyote Point Systems
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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Fate | Acquired by Fortinet in 2013 |
| Headquarters | Millerton, New York, USA and San Jose, California, USA |
| Products | Equalizer application traffic management appliance |
| Website | coyotepoint.com |
Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet.[1][2]
The company introduced hardware-based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as F5 in the late 1990s.[3] The company had its headquarters in San Jose, California, and maintained engineering facilities in Millerton, New York, USA.
History
[edit | edit source]Early Coyote Point customers included Wired for the HotWired Web magazine, and the online movie database IMDb.[4] Coyote Point introduced several generations of new hardware and software with increasing performance and functionality, winning industry and press awards including the 2006 Network Computing Well-Connected Award[5] and the Info Security Global Product Excellence Award.[6] The company's VLB technology, which permits load balancing of VMware infrastructure, was nominated for Best of Interop 2008[7] and SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards.[8]
Products and technology
[edit | edit source]Coyote Point developed traffic management appliances to improve application performance.[9] In 2009, the company released three upgraded products as part of its Equalizer GX family of load balancing and application acceleration appliances.[10] By monitoring server and application availability and responsiveness, the Equalizer line of load-balancing appliances direct individual client requests to the server best able to handle them.[citation needed] Coyote Point's products are generally deployed at data centers, serving as front-end aggregators of an array of web or application servers. Layer 7 rules (content switching) direct requests to servers hosting specific applications or content. [citation needed]Application acceleration technologies, such as SSL acceleration and HTTP compression are available on Coyote's higher-end products.[citation needed]
Custom hardware, such as Layer 2 switches and SSL offload processors, and custom operating systems based on FreeBSD[11] are used in Coyote Point's appliances with performance of over 50,000 HTTP transactions per second in network benchmarks.[12]
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