SonicWall
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| legal form | Inc |
| founding | 1991 |
| Seat | San Jose , California |
| management | Bill Conner ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 950 (2012) |
| sales | $ 265 million (2011) |
| Branch | IT infrastructure |
| Website | www.sonicwall.com |
SonicWall is an IT infrastructure company based in San José, California . It was self-employed from 1991 to 2012, bought by Dell in 2012 and sold to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management in 2016 .
history
In 1991 the brothers Sreekanth Ravi and Sudhakar Ravi founded Sonic Systems to manufacture Ethernet cards, hubs and bridges for Apple systems. At the end of the 1990s, the company and Interpol released a firewall with a VPN solution. In 1999, the company was renamed SonicWall Inc. and has since been traded on the NASDAQ as (SNWL). In 2005 SonicWall bought the manufacturer enKoo and two years later the Aventail Corporation . SonicWall was de-listed from NASDAQ in 2010. On May 20, 2016, Dell announced the sale of SonicWall to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ USA Today , March 14, 2012, p. B1, “Dell buys security specialist SonicWall”
- ↑ http://getfilings.com/sec-filings/100305/SONICWALL-INC_10-K/
- ↑ a b Corporate Information . SonicWall. 1999. Archived from the original on May 4, 1999. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ↑ SonicWall IPO Should Make Noise . Ecommerce Times. 1999. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ↑ SonicWALL Acquires Lasso Logic Inc., and enKoo .
- ↑ SonicWALL, Inc. to Acquire Aventail Corporation . PR Newswire. 2007. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
- ^ Francisco Partners and Elliott Management to Acquire the Dell Software Group . www.sonicwall.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
