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Asankya Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for Monitoring Network TrafficATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Asankya, Inc., the application delivery leader for network-intensive applications, announced today the issuance by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office of a patent for network monitoring which allows for greater efficiency and flexibility in capturing network traffic information. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090603/LA26593LOGO) U.S. Patent No. 7,742,404 relates to the monitoring of network traffic. Asankya's solution differs from conventional network monitoring, which allows only limited flexibility in choosing what type of traffic is captured and subsequently analyzed. With the expanding variety of services moving into the cloud, the need for more efficient and flexible network monitoring could not be greater. The innovative Asankya approach equips cloud service providers with a more secure network while accurately measuring network traffic and capacity, allowing greater efficiency for auditing and billing. "Network monitoring is a critical element in the operation of network service," said Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar, Asankya's CTO and founder. "This patent award recognizes Asankya's unique selective monitoring method of a variety of network properties including throughput, delay and loss at different configurable granularities. Moreover, it provides service providers with a rich but simple interface to specify what aspects of the network they are interested in monitoring." Asankya operates the RAPIDnet Application Delivery Network (ADN) service, and licenses RAPIDnode products. Asankya serves its commercial and U.S. Federal customers on a global basis. About Asankya Asankya is the premier application delivery partner for network-intensive Internet applications. The company's patented technology powers the RAPIDnet Application Delivery Network (ADN). RAPIDnet is utilized by leading providers of Stoarge-aaS, online file servers, virtual desktops, private enterprise applications; and by agencies of the U.S. Federal government. Asankya is venture-backed by Veritas Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel, Georgia Research Alliance, Seraph Group and Ridgewood Advisors. Asankya is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: With the exception of the historical information contained in this release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters herein described, including but not limited to, product acceptance, the ability to continually obtain increased orders of its products, the ability to meet installation goals, economic, competitive, governmental impacts, whether pending patents will be granted or defendable, validity of intellectual property and patents, the ability to license patents, the ability to commercialize developmental products, as well as technological and/or other factors. SOURCE Asankya, Inc. |