11 Facts About Sandvine

Sandvine Incorporated is an application and network intelligence company based in Waterloo, Ontario.

Sandvine classifies application traffic across mobile and local networks by user, device, network type, location and other parameters.

Sandvine then applies machine learning-based analytics to real-time data and makes technical policy changes.

Sandvine was formed in August, 2001 in Waterloo, Ontario, by a team of approximately 30 people from PixStream, a then-recently closed company acquired by Cisco.

In March 2006 Sandvine completed an initial public offering on the London AIM exchange under the ticker 'SAND'.

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In October 2006 Sandvine completed an initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker 'SVC'.

In June 2007 Sandvine acquired CableMatrix Technologies for its PacketCable Multimedia -based PCRF that enable broadband operators to increase subscriber satisfaction while delivering media-rich IP applications and services such as SIP telephony, video streaming, on-line gaming, and videoconferencing.

In July 2017 Sandvine shareholders accepted a $562 million takeover bid from PNI Acquireco Corp.

The acquisition was completed in September 2017 when Sandvine shares ceased to be listed in the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Sandvine uses stateful deep packet inspection and packet spoofing to allow the networking device to determine the details of the P2P conversation, including the hash requested.

Sandvine products were used by Comcast in the United States to limit number of sessions of Internet traffic generated by peer-to-peer file sharing software.