"SonicWALL is a public company that provides Internet security solutions and appliances. Their product lines within include devices that provide a firewall, UTM (Unified Threat Management), VPN (Virtual Private Network), backup and recovery, and anti-spam / email and content filtering, as well as software and value-added subscription services.
SonicWALL’s reassembly-free deep packet inspection engine can scan unlimited file sizes and virtually hundreds of thousands of concurrent downloads running on any TCP port, providing scalability and performance for growing networks. SonicWALL has five patents pending for their unified threat management (UTM) stream-based scanning methodology.
SonicWALL’s main headquarters are located in San Jose, CA. In addition, they have a sales center in Tempe, AZ (US) and engineering centers in Bangalore (India), Shanghai (China), and Seattle, WA (US). As of January 2008, SonicWALL employs 700 people in five offices around the world. SonicWALL runs its own support centers from its offices at Bangalore (India), Tempe and Sunnyvale (Both US).
Pro forma net earnings for fiscal year 2006 were approximately $14.5M USD, or $0.21 per fully diluted share, while revenue for the same year topped out at $175,000,000 USD. Pro forma net earnings exclude amortization of purchased intangible assets, restructuring charges, in-process research and development, and share-based compensation expense.
For fiscal year 2007, SonicWALL reported revenue of $199.2M USD, representing revenue growth of 13.5% over fiscal year 2006. GAAP net earnings for fiscal year 2007 were $28.6M USD, or $0.43 per diluted share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $10.8M USD, or $0.17 per diluted share, in fiscal year 2006." (
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