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Sandvine Corporation engages in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of network management equipment and solutions for broadband and wireless operators worldwide. The company?s solutions enable in identifying, monitoring, and applying policies on network traffic, as well as classify applications that are utilizing their networks (for example, VoIP, gaming, or video streams); understand subscriber behavior; introduce new services or service tiers; recognize and address network threats like denial of service attacks, spam zombies, and worms; and manage valuable network resources. The company provides Policy Traffic Switch portfolio products to manage bandwidth-intensive traffic, control malicious threats, enable new services, and identify application quality trends; and Service Delivery Engine to offer resource management and control of sensitive multimedia services, as well as integrate with other policy platforms and network management products for a comprehensive policy strategy addressing services, security, traffic optimization, and network demographics reporting. It also offers policy management and subscriber mediation software for the Internet protocol networks. In addition, Sandvine provides a range of professional services, software maintenance services, and security operations services. The company sells its products through reseller arrangements with various tier one network equipment vendors. Sandvine was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.