Gigamon


Gigamon is a privately held network visibility and traffic monitoring technology vendor. Formerly traded publicly, it is now owned by Elliott Management. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Gigamon had 371 employees as of December 27, 2014, and 743 employees as of April 2017.
The company's proprietary products can manipulate and route traffic to various application performance, network management, analysis, compliance and security tools.

History

Gigamon was founded in 2004 as Gigamon Systems, LLC.
The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on June 11, 2013. During the initial public offering on June 12, 2013, investors bought 6.75 million shares priced at $19 each, generating $128 million in sales. Gigamon officials rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange on February 24, 2016.
In January 2018, the company was acquired by Elliott Management Corporation and The Qatar Investment Authority for US$1.6 billion.

Products

Gigamon develops physical and virtual network visibility technologies, including network TAP and aggregation products, traffic manipulation applications and visibility fabric nodes.

Recognition and awards