LiveAction

LiveAction, Inc.
Private
Founded Honolulu (2007)
Headquarters Palo Alto, CA
Key people
 Darren Kimura; Executive chairman
Dana Matsunaga; COO
John Smith; Founder and CTO
Website www.liveaction.com

LiveAction, Inc. (formerly known as ActionPacked Networks) is a private network monitoring software company based in Palo Alto, California

History

The company was founded in 2007 as a Referentia Systems, Inc. by John Smith who had worked on the LiveAction project for Referentia.[1] LiveAction (then ActionPacked Networks) received a $0.5 million seed investment in 2013 by Enerdigm Ventures.[2] In 2014, LiveAction completed a $5.35 million Series A round of financing. AITV led the investment round with participation from Cisco Investments and Enerdigm Ventures.[3] In 2016, LiveAction completed a $36 million Series B round of financing led by Insight Venture Partners. Accelerate-IT Ventures and Cisco Investments also participated in the funding round.[4]

Channel Reseller News (CRN) mentioned ActionPacked Networks) in 2012. In 2013 It became the first Cisco management partner to support the MSI’s REST-based management interface (v3.1).[5]

Gartner Market Guide for Unified Communicatons, 2016. LiveAction noted as vendor of UC monitoring solution.[6]

Technology

The software combines network topology, device, and flow visualizations with direct interactive monitoring and configuration of quality of service, NetFlow, LAN, Routing, and other features inside Cisco Systems devices.[7] LiveAction software combines a graphical interface that eliminates the need to use the Cisco command line interface (CLI) for complex NetFlow and QoS operations. LiveAction software was originally developed for the U.S. Marine Corps to simplify quality of service configuration and to reduce manpower required to manage mobile tactical networks.[8] The performance of traffic supported by each device can be assessed using live traffic displays, such as that provided directly from router interfaces.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "ActionPacked Networks Rebrands and Launches as LiveAction". Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Company Overview of Enerdigm Ventures, LLC". BloombergBusiness. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "LiveAction Secures $5.35 Million Series A Financing from AITV and Cisco Investments". VentureBeat. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "LiveAction Secures $36m Funding Round". RedHerring. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "ActionPacked! Networks Completes Interoperability Verification and Testing of the Live Action Software". Cisco Blogs. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Market Guide for Unified Communications Monitoring". Gartner. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Kerravala, Zeus (17 March 2014). "Troubleshooting Cisco's IWAN: It all depends on network visibility". NetworkWorld. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Referentia Spin-Off Company "ActionPacked! Networks" Named One of the Top 25 "Coolest Emerging Tech Vendors" by Channel Reseller News". Referentia Systems. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  9. ↑ Underwood, Mark (30 November 2010). "LiveAction QoS tool demystifies the management of Cisco devices". TechRepublic. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  10. ↑ US patent 9003292, Smith; John Kei (Honolulu, HI), Pierce; Robert (Honolulu, HI) & Pierce, Robert, "System and method for network topology and flow visualization", issued 2015-04-07, assigned to LiveAction, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
  11. ↑ US patent 9240930, Smith; John Kei (Honolulu, HI), Pierce; Robert (Honolulu, HI) & Pierce, Robert, "System for network flow visualization through network devices within network topology", issued 2016-01-19, assigned to LiveAction, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
  12. ↑ US patent 9246772, Smith; John Kei (Honolulu, HI), Pierce; Robert (Honolulu, HI) & Pierce, Robert, "System and method for network topology and flow visualization", issued 2016-01-26, assigned to LiveAction, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
  13. ↑ US patent 9350622, Smith; John Kei (Honolulu, HI), Pierce; Robert (Honolulu, HI) & Pierce, Robert, "Method and system for real-time visualization of network flow within network device", issued 2016-05-24, assigned to LiveAction, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
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