Website www.liveaction.com Headquarters Palo Alto | Founded 2007 Type of business Private | |
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Key people Darren Kimura; Executive chairman
Dana Matsunaga; COO
John Smith; Founder and CTO | ||
Liveaction use qos to solve application performance problems across the wan
LiveAction, Inc. (formerly known as ActionPacked Networks) is a private network monitoring software company based in Palo Alto, California
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History
The company was founded in 2007 as a Referentia Systems, Inc. by John Smith who had worked on the LiveAction project for Referentia. LiveAction (then ActionPacked Networks) received a $0.5 million seed investment in 2013 by Enerdigm Ventures. 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. 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.
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).
Gartner Market Guide for Unified Communications, 2016. LiveAction noted as vendor of UC monitoring solution.
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. 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. The performance of traffic supported by each device can be assessed using live traffic displays, such as that provided directly from router interfaces.