Coyote Point Systems

Type| Private company
Industry| Technology
Fate| Acquired by Fortinet in 2013
Founded| 1998
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.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Products and technology
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

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

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. 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|date=December 2018} , 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]

## References

1. ↑ Kontzer, Tony (March 27, 2013). "Fortinet Acquires ADC Vendor Coyote Point: Security vendor Fortinet announced its acquisition of application delivery controller vendor Coyote Point Systems. Fortinet hopes the acquisition will boost its enterprise presence". Network Computing.com. http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-generation-data-center/news/networking/fortinet-acquires-adc-vendor-coyote-poin/240151850. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
2. ↑ "Fortinet to Acquire Coyote Point -" (in en-US). 22 March 2013. https://securitytoday.com/Articles/2013/03/22/Fortinet-to-Acquire-Coyote-Point.aspx.
3. ↑ Ohlhorst, Frank J. (September 1, 2010). "Coyote Point Offers Application Balancing for Virtual Servers". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10781. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
4. ↑ FindArticles.com | CBSi
5. ↑ Doherty, Sean (April 24, 2006). "12th Annual Well-Connected Awards: Network Infrastructure". Network Computing.com. http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-networking-management/12th-annual-well-connected-awards-networ/229613588?pgno=3. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
6. ↑ "Info Security Products Guide Product Excellence Award 2006: Excellence in Load Balancing". Silicon Valley Communications. 2006. Archived from the original on July 11, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060711084848/http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/products/Equalizer.html. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
7. ↑ "Finalists 2008". Interop. 2008. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080421042400/http://www.bestofinterop.com/finalists/. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
8. ↑ "Coyote Point Systems Nominated for SYS-CON's 'Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards': Coyote Point Equalizer VLB Nominated for 'Best Virtualization Platforms High Availability'". AjaxWorld. July 1, 2008. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/590907.htm. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
9. ↑ Lawson, Stephen (2013-03-22). "Fortinet to Buy Coyote Point to Merge Security with Application Delivery" (in en). https://www.cio.com/article/2387320/mergers-acquisitions/fortinet-to-buy-coyote-point-to-merge-security-with-application-delivery.html.
10. ↑ "Coyote Point Releases App Acceleration/Load Balancing Appliances for SMBs". 14 January 2009. https://www.eweek.com/small-business/coyote-point-releases-app-acceleration-load-balancing-appliances-for-smbs.
11. ↑ Kerner, Sean Michael (January 13, 2009). "Coyote Point Builds on FreeBSD to Accelerate". Internet News.com. http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3795791. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
12. ↑ "Coyote Point Systems Inc. Equalizer E350si: Competitive Performance and Feature Evaluation versus Barracuda Networks Load Balancer 340". The Tolly Group. August 2008. http://www.tolly.com/ts/2008/CoyotePoint/E350si/TollyTS208329CoyotePointE350si.pdf. Retrieved June 11, 2013. (pdf)

## External links

* Fortinet official website

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