Number of employees 1000 (December 2011) Website SonicWall, originally a private company headquartered in, and subsidiary from 2012 to 2016, sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at and. These include devices providing services for, UTMs (Unified Threat Management), VPNs (), and for email.

The company also markets information subscription services related to their products. The company solutions also serve to solve issues surrounding and issues. On March 13, 2012, said that Dell had announced its intent to acquire SonicWall, which then had 130 patents and 950 employees.

Dell's acquisition of SonicWall became official on May 9, 2012. On June 20, 2016, sold SonicWall (part of its ) to private equity firm and. History [ ] 1991: Brothers Sreekanth Ravi and Sudhakar Ravi founded the company under the name 'Sonic Systems' to develop and Fast Ethernet cards, hubs and bridges for the Apple market. 1990s: In the late 1990s the company released a security product initially called 'Interpol' and later branded 'SonicWALL', a dedicated hardware appliance with firewall and VPN software intended for the small-business market. As sales for the security appliances rapidly accelerated, the company exited the Apple add-on networking business and refocused exclusively as a network security company. 1999: In late 1999 the company changed its name from Sonic Systems to SonicWALL, Inc. To represent the shift to a network security company, and in November 1999 SonicWall went public (SNWL).

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2001: SonicWall upgraded its Global Management System (GMS) software to manage more VPN devices. 2003: Matthew T. (Matt) Medeiros (formerly of Philips Components) became CEO in March 2003. SonicWall acquired a number of companies through the years, expanding its product line in the process. 2005: SonicWall announced the acquisition of enKoo. 2007: SonicWall announced the acquisition of Aventail Corporation. 2010: On July 23, 2010, SonicWall announced that it had completed its merger with affiliates of an investor group led by Thoma Bravo, LLC, which included the through its private investor department,.

After the merger SonicWall was delisted from. 2012: On March 13, 2012, announced that they had signed a definitive agreement to acquire SonicWall.

2016: On May 20, 2016, announced the sale of (which included SonicWall) to private equity firm and. References [ ]. Retrieved 2010-03-05. Retrieved 2011-06-06. •, page B1, published March 14, 2008, 'Dell buys security specialist SonicWall' •. Archived from on 1999-05-04.

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