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AVANU Inc. headquartered in San Jose, California is a privately held product developer with manufacturing and production in the United States. The company’s products are specific for the IT infrastructure and data center environments. The company’s flagship product is the WebMux Network Traffic Manager. Founded in 1997, AVANU was a certified participant in the U.S. SBA’s 8(a)/SDB development program graduating in 2015 and is WOSB Certified.

Corporate History
AVANU started in 1997 as a reseller of the UNIX-based operating system product BSDI (Berkeley Software Design Inc) to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) community. The company expanded globally as a Value-Added Supplier of computer software and network hardware peripheral products. In 2012, AVANU acquired the WebMux and DNSMux load balancing product line from CAI Networks, an engineering firm in California.

Products and Technology
The WebMux Network Traffic Manager is an enterprise-class application delivery network load balancing solution for managing, controlling, and securing local network Layers 4-7 traffic. Local network traffic is defined as directing network packets based on OSI layers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 protocols to multiple network servers, accomplishing both fault tolerance and high availability. WebMux focuses on the protocols that eliminate the need for proprietary scripting languages at the application layer and with optimized algorithms implemented in the firmware to provide the high availability.

The development of WebMux began in 1997 with one of its first customer being an organization that services the United States Department of Defense. In 2005, WebMux was one of the first hardware load balancers (HLB) selected by Microsoft® to support their Office® Live Communications Server (today’s Skype® for Business Server). The WebMux software was upgraded from a 32-bit to a higher performing 64-bit processing platform along with new features added to improve the management and operability, with server-grade hardware enhancements. WebMux was launched under the AVANU brand in 2014. WebMux supports scalability options with plug-and-run hardware appliances and Virtual appliances for Cloud computing.

Application and Services Examples
TCP and UDP Internet Protocol (IP) based applications and services including Skype® for Business Server, Exchange® Server, SharePoint®, WebLogic®, WebSphere®, RedHat® Jboss, Eclipse Jetty, LiteScape, Pexip®, Apache® Tomcat, UC (unified messaging, IM presence, team collaboration, audio/web/video conferencing, mobility, and VoIP), databases, FTP, POP, terminal servers, and web servers.