Cedexis, specialized in accelerating the web access was again sold

The big french revelation that made web access easier to big corporations was just bought by the American software publisher Citrix.

The cloud, online services, websites, Netflix and Amazon, they all have one thing in common. They depend on connections that route the data between the user and the business site. If the consumer has to wait too long, he may zap and leave the site. The speed in the web access has become crucial to streamline online services, an increasingly difficult task to fulfill as the explosion of the amount of data circulating on the internet causes traffic jams. Smelling the windfall, many companies have rushed into the niche of optimizing the Internet and offer their miracle solutions to boost network performance.

Among them, Cedexis, a startup founded in 2010 by Julien Coulon. Quietly, the small business has garnered customers, like Facebook, Linkedin, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bloomberg, Samsung and Lenovo. "We have a team of 75 professionals,"says Julien Coulon,"in France, in the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, Israel, and Singapore."We collect data from more than one billion people a day.". This little technological nugget could have become a unicorn. Missed. It has just been bought by Citrix, a US software company that made $ 2.82 billion in revenue in 2017.

When your box grows, it's not your box anymore

Such a buyout is not surprising. While the problem of accelerating the internet is crucial for all merchant sites, it has become a lifeline for all companies selling online services, especially those that offer cloud-based applications like software as a service (SaaS). In this case, the software is installed in a remote server and the user pays at the time of use. It is also necessary that the use is at least as fast and fluid as that of a software installed on the hard disk.

Internet accelerators such as Cedexis claim to be able to streamline traffic. For telecom operators, these companies are in reality parasites who are content to plunder the most profitable services without ever installing any cable. However, these techniques that accelerate the network have become indispensable.