Asankya, Inc.
Hypermesh Network
- Conference
- DEMO 08
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Market Segment
- IT Management and Infrastructure
- Funding Details
- Asankya has closed on more than $2.5 million in funding, from Veritas Venture Partners, an Israeli venture-capital firm with offices in Atlanta; In-Q-Tel, a Washington, D.C.-based fund; the Seraph Group, an Atlanta venture fund; and angels investors including Steve Chaddick, a co-founder of CIENA Corp., and Frank Bonsal, a co-founder of NEA.
- Competitors
- BitTorrent, DNA Digital Fountain, Pando, Swarmcast
- Product Description
- Asankya provides seamless transport of realtime, real-content over all IP networks supporting HD quality and two-way interactive content not well addressed in today’s content delivery networks and peer-to-peer solutions. The company’s core enhancing technology, Parallel Networking, intelligently reads and characterizes IP networks in real-time at the packet level -- avoiding traffic blockers that impede content delivery and the end-user experience. Working with leading ISP’s, Asankya is creating the first truly open, streaming delivery network, Hypermesh. The network provides seamless multimedia delivery driven by the Asankya’s Parallel Networking technology.
- Market Opportunity
- According to Dan Rayburn of Streaming Media, the U.S. video delivery market in 2007 was $482 million and will be $800 million in 2008. Wintergreen Research forecasts the streaming media enterprise market to reach $2 billion by 2013.
- DEMO Says
- Just as the first generation of Web applications required new data delivery models, a new wave of rich media applications demands an overhaul of content delivery technologies. With new protocols and a smart distribution model, Asankya meets this challenge and positions itself to be the Akamai of the next generation.
- Contact
- Genna Keller
- GKeller@trevelinokeller.com
- Company Address
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75 Fifth St., NW, Ste. 217
Atlanta, GA 30308 - Primary Phone
- 404-961-7630
- Primary Fax
- 404-385-6092
- URL
- www.asankya.com
- Corporate Officers
- Scott Ryan, Chairman & CEO Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar, CTO & Founder