Cotendo, Inc. is a content delivery network

Content Delivery Network

A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....

and an application delivery network

Application delivery network

An Application Delivery Network is a suite of technologies that, when deployed together, provide application availability, security, visibility, and acceleration. Gartner defines Application Delivery Networking as the combination of WAN optimization and Application Delivery Controllers...

service provider. The company's headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, with research and development based in Netanya

Netanya

Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS)

The Mobile Acceleration Suite meets the challenge of delivering highly personalized mobile content. Cotendo has deployed distributed services with real-time awareness of each user’s changing conditions, plus capabilities for using that awareness to make rapid network adjustments for each user.
The Mobile Acceleration Suite’s awareness extends to device capabilities, to devices’ network connections, to geo-location data, and to changing network conditions. Using that awareness, the Mobile Acceleration Suite makes operator-transparent adjustments to improve performance and maintain consistent delivery. At the same time, it can adjust source content, streamlining delivery and display for mobile devices.
Deploying the Mobile Acceleration Suite is easy. No changes are needed on the website application side, and the management portal gives you direct control over service configurations. Provisioning and management are done in real time, and changes instantly go into effect globally.

Cotendo Cloudlet™ Platform

Flexible and easy to deploy, Cotendo Cloudlet™ platform extends application and site functionality—and boosts speed—by positioning delivery decisions and content transformation closer to your site’s end-users. By better understanding the requests, and considering the context and parameters of the requests, Cloudlet™ modules increase responsiveness to and performance for users, while decreasing connection and processing load on the origin for an overall better and streamlined delivery.

Dynamic Site Acceleration

Cotendo Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA) enables you to maximize the performance of dynamic websites and Web applications. It speeds delivery of non-cacheable dynamic content, increases efficiency and reduces origin server loads.

Content Delivery

Cotendo Content Delivery provides high-performance, cost-effective global delivery of cacheable Web content such as images, media objects and static HTML. It significantly improves the end-user experience while giving you delivery flexibility and scale.

SSL Delivery

Cotendo SSL enables high-performance HTTPS delivery of personalized website and Web application content via Cotendo’s global network, reducing your origin server loads. Easy to deploy, it requires no changes to your Web architecture and supports both self-signed certificates and Cotendo shared certificates.

Cotendo Adaptive Image Compression

Cotendo Adaptive Image Compression (AIC) enables content providers to strike the right balance between image quality and latency. This is accomplished by constantly analyzing each session’s network conditions and applying the optimal level of image compression. Cotendo AIC distributed topology makes this possible, continuously gauging network conditions as close to users as possible, at the last mile, and then making smart decisions. Also taken into account are the requesting device’s capabilities. Cotendo AIC allows great flexibility in defining the behavior of the solution. Content providers can customize according to their preferences, and have full control over the user's browsing experience.

CDN Balancer

Cotendo CDN Balancer empowers you to orchestrate a multi-CDN strategy, for resiliency, expense control and business agility. You can precisely allocate content distribution across your own delivery resources,Cotendo Content Delivery or other CDNs, based on geography, capacity and real-time conditions.

Advanced DNS

Cotendo Advanced DNS (Domain Name Service) reduces latency, scales seamlessly for every audience size and geography, and enhances service availability. Cotendo’s distributed service model provides another layer of security for your website and web applications. DNS queries can be flexibly handled based on rules(location, time) and real-time conditions.

Site Assure

Cotendo Site Assure monitors your core websites and Web applications 24/7, providing automatic failover services to guarantee business-critical uptime while minimizing the impact on end-user experience. A fully redundant, globally distributed monitoring system, it includes sophisticated tracking for making ongoing availability improvements.

SEO Analytics

Cotendo SEO Analytics collects real-time data on all search-engine-crawler HTTP requests to the Cotendo CDN, giving you critical information for fixing website performance issues and directing crawlers to poorly indexed sections that could be degrading search engine rankings.

Real-time reporting, control and management

Cotendo Real Time (RT) Reporting empowers you to evaluate and respond quickly to content performance.Logs and historical data provide the visibility of short- and long-term trends in Web traffic. An integrated reporting platform gives you the control you need to manage delivery on a granular level, with a resolution accuracy interval of minutes.

Timeline

Cotendo was founded January 2008 with funding from Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

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On March 10, 2009, Cotendo launched their CDN service and announced a USD $7 million second round of funding from Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

 and Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red...

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On June 15, 2011, Cotendo Sets a New Standard for Mobile Content Delivery With Breakthrough Mobile Acceleration Suite.

On August 9, 2011, COTENDO GAINS TRACTION IN THE FAST-GROWING SOCIAL GAMES IN-APP ADVERTISING SEGMENT BY HELPING ADVERTISERS AND PUBLISHERS MAXIMIZE USER ENGAGEMENT AND QUICKLY CUSTOMIZE CONTENT FOR THE BEST ROI

On September 20, 2011, Cotendo to Present at GigaOm Mobilize 2011

On October 26, 2011,Cotendo and Citrix Accelerate Mobile, Web and SaaS Applications with NetScaler CloudConnector for CDN