# Sideband

> Sideband Networks developed physical and virtual appliances that analyzed live enterprise network traffic, correlated it with historical records and mapped devices, users and applications. Its early performance-management proposition evolved into behavioral monitoring of communications around critical assets.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Zane M. Taylor (Co-founder and CEO), Sherman Tang (Co-founder and CMO)
- **Products:** vXRE, XRE-4000, XRE-1000, vSSP, SSP-1000
- **Notable:** Named an EMA Vendor to Watch in 2014., Company announced a 2014 TiE50 award., Company announced the 2014 Networking Tech Trailblazers award in January 2015.

## Products & services

- **vXRE** — Virtual network performance-management appliance combining traffic analysis, topology discovery and live/logged data correlation.
- **XRE-4000** — Physical XRE appliance for higher-throughput network monitoring; the 2014 EMA brief described over 40 Gbps aggregate capacity.
- **XRE-1000** — Entry-level 2 Gbps appliance announced for small and medium-sized enterprises in September.
- **vSSP** — Agentless virtual appliance advertised for 1 Gbps live traffic analysis across network layers 2–7.
- **SSP-1000** — Passive physical appliance advertised for 2 Gbps traffic analysis.
- **SSP-2000** — Physical appliance advertised for 10 Gbps traffic analysis.
- **SBN Series** — Physical and virtual security appliances using machine learning and network behavior analytics to alert on anomalous critical-asset communications.

## Achievements

- Named an EMA Vendor to Watch in 2014.
- Company announced a 2014 TiE50 award.
- Company announced the 2014 Networking Tech Trailblazers award in January 2015.

## Latest updates

- **2015-11** — Published an overview of SBN critical-asset security appliances and behavioral analytics.
- **2021-07** — The logo trademark registration was cancelled under Section 8; this is an administrative record, not proof of corporate closure.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sidebandnetworks.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sideband-networks/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sidebandnet
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sideband-Networks/333076910156467

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