With real-time communications technologies such as Instant Messaging (IM) gaining wide acceptance in the past few years, Akonix is well positioned to take advantage of a high growth market opportunity. Akonix products will play a key role in helping secure, control and manage these real-time technologies as an effective business and productivity tool.
The Beginning
2000 - Shipped its first product in 2001. Akonix is privately held and based in San Diego, California.
The Success Team
Peter Shaw, Chief Executive Officer
Chuck Kimmel,
Chief Financial Officer Dr Vijnan Shastri, VP Engineering Don Montgomery, VP Marketing Kip Quackenbush, VP Worldwide Sales Tim Breidigan, VP Business Development Bill Harmer, Managing Director, UK & EMEA
"Akonix is a hot company with products that can benefit every enterprise in securing, controling and managing the current and emerging real-time communications technologies."
Rick Justice, Chief Editor
What makes Akonix Systems, Inc. an Info Security "Hot Company" 2006
Products & Technologies
Unique patent-pending technology to deliver comprehensive support for all of today's leading IM applications. Akonix L7 Enterprise architecture leverages dynamically-updated, plug-in Protocol Adapters, each of which detects and manages a specific protocol. Today's suite of Protocol Adapters delivers support for AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging, Microsoft Live Communications Server, and Reuters Messaging.
With more than 10 patents filed, Akonix is widely recognized as the technology and market innovator with awards for Akonix L7 Enterprise from Network World, eWeek, Windows & .Net Magazine, SC Magazine, PC Magazine and Red Herring. Akonix also won the prestigious UCSD Connect MIP Award.
People & Investors
The company is led by
Peter Shaw who is a veteran CEO with experience in the graphics, personal
computer, UNIX, Internet (software, hardware and systems) and
enterprise software industries. Mr. Shaw is also experienced in the
fields of mergers & acquisitions and venture capital financing, and has led several successful turnaround situations.
Akonix is funded by
General Motors Asset Management Corporation,
Menlo Ventures,
Mission Ventures,
Palomar Ventures, and
Windward Ventures.
Performance & Growth
Fast - Akonix shipped its first product from drawing board to deployment in less than 2 years.
Customers include Google, Qualcomm, Cingular, McAfee, Disney, Turner/CNN, CSC and H&R Block.
Potential & Strategies
High Growth IM Market - Akonix has products that provide real-time management, security and monitoring for Instant Messaging (IM). This market will continue to grow rapidly.
Key certified partnerships with companies such as America Online®, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Reuters, IBM, and Bloomberg provide Akonix customers with a future-proof IM infrastructure investment, and position the company at the center of the evolving interconnected IM ecosystem.
Akonix Systems, Inc.
600B Street, Suite 1800
San Diego, CA 92101 USA
Tel: (619) 814-2300
Fax: (619) 814-2360
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