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Apparent Networks, Inc. is a company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, that designs and sells network intelligence system software, tools and services globally.

Contents 1 Corporate History 1.1 Executive History 1.2 Origin of Name 1.3 Initial Product 1.4 Client Services 2 Current Company 2.1 Product Portfolio 2.1.1 VoIP 2.2 Research 3 References 4 External Links

The origins of the company trace back to the late 1990s with research and preliminary development of a novel network intelligence system tool. Apparent Networks develops and markets software that provides a unique approach to improving application performance by measuring and diagnosing live converged networks as part of pre-deployment assessment, troubleshooting and continuous real-time monitoring. AppCritical™ provides awareness of the most critical network characteristics needed by voice, video and data applications. It has been successfully deployed by tier-one technology vendors, managed and professional service providers and enterprises to assure end-user quality of experience. Customers include ACS, Boeing, Nortel, Fujitsu, Siemens, IBM, Symantec, Toshiba, Bell, HP, Network Appliance, McData, TELUS, DHL Systems, the United States Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, Bank of New York and Electronic Arts. The privately held company has offices in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.apparentnetworks.com.

Irfhan Rajani, Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer Irfhan Rajani is a technology visionary who built his reputation with the success of three Technology companies in the past 16 years. Early in his career, Rajani co-founded Zentra, a network storage integration firm. In the mid-1990s he co-founded TeleBackup Systems, which developed software that enabled off-site computer backup over the Internet. In 1999, TeleBackup was sold to Veritas Software, a global leader in data storage systems, for in excess of US$143 million.

A year later, Mr. Rajani founded Apparent Networks, a software company tackling the performance issues surrounding the convergence of voice, video and storage on one network. With Rajani at the helm, Apparent Networks completed the largest venture capital financing for a new Canadian software company during 2002 and continues to grab industry-wide attention. Recognized as a Deloitte Fast 50 Company to Watch and recipient of BCTIA’s Excellence in Product Innovation Award, Apparent Networks counts many of the world’s largest technology companies as customers. Rajani currently serves as the company's President and CEO.

In life, Rajani strongly believes that what the community gives to you, you should "give back" to the community. Rajani's belief is clearly evident in the community groups he supports. He is a founding board member of the BC Technology Social Venture Partners and actively supports a number of community groups including KidSafe, Science World and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon.

Fred Klassen, Co-Founder, Vice President, Network Technologies As VP, Network Technologies, co-founder of Apparent Networks and the genesis behind AppCritical, Fred Klassen draws more than 20 years of experience in product innovation, development and networking.

During his career with IBM, Fred was called in to solve some of the most difficult networking problems in the world, often after many other attempts had failed. He has received numerous awards for his contributions and innovations within the networking field and has personally experienced the challenges facing network managers.

Kelly Daniels, Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer Kelly Daniels, co-founder of Apparent Networks, has more than 15 years experience in the design, implementation, management and evaluation of innovative, technology-driven companies.

As co-founder and VP-Technical Operations of Mainframe Entertainment, Kelly received a Gemini Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement from the Academy of Canadian Television. He has also held senior technical and management positions at Broadcast Television Systems (now Philips), in addition to designing and implementing the technical systems of Visuals Imaging in Milan, Italy.

Loki Jorgenson,PhD - Chief Scientist With a Ph.D. in computational physics from McGill University, Loki has been active in scientific computation, physics and mathematics, visualization, and simulation for more than 20 years. He has published in areas as diverse as philosophy, graphics, educational technologies, statistical mechanics, and logic and number theory.

Loki is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University where he co-founded the Center for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics. He has directed academic research in numerous network-centric projects from high performance computing to telelearning, working closely with private sector partners and government.

At Apparent Networks, Loki is responsible for leading our efforts in critical research areas such as wireless and VoIP, expert systems, and intelligent networks in collaboration with international thought leaders and as a corporate member of Internet2.

Wendy van Donkelaar, Vice President, Finance and Operations As VP, Finance and Operations, Wendy van Donkelaar brings 12 years of business experience in the technology industry to her current role.

Wendy spent 8 years at Crystal Decisions where she had P&L responsibility for Crystal Decisions' $20m Professional Services business. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies such as Aetna, Citibank, Bank of America and Pepsi. She was also active on a number of cross functional executive teams that oversaw the Worldwide Sales & Professional Services strategies and that implemented Peoplesoft Financials.

During her tenure at Crystal the company grew from a 110-person startup selling developer tools, to the fastest growing enterprise software company in the world with more than 1,600 employees and USD$300 million in revenue.

Wendy holds CA designation from Ernst & Young and a Business Degree from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Greg Ammirati, Executive Vice President, Sales Greg has over 25 years of successful Software sales, Sales Management, and Global Sales Operations experience.

Greg has led Worldwide Sales, Channels, Professional Services, and Field Support Organizations in both start up and publicly traded software companies.

Greg’s expertise includes Application Performance Management, Distributed Computing, and Infrastructure Software. Greg’s experience includes successful leadership roles at organizations including Veritas, Precise Software, Unison Software, and EDS. Greg also founded and ran an award-winning Sales Training, Consulting, and Executive Search firm for the high-tech and health care industries. Greg has a BSBA from Georgetown University and a MBA in Management and Finance from the College of William and Mary.

The company started with the name Jaalam Research, which was modified later to Jaalam Technologies then renamed to Apparent Networks after the first product known as appareNet.

Using patented technology a prototype version of a novel network intelligence system tool was developed and named appareNet. The first release of the software was tested successfully at several sites in comparison to existing tools.

During initial product development considerable consulting work was undertaken with clients using the new appareNet tool. This resulted in numerous difficult problems being resolved successfully, greatly enhancing the credibility of the tool.

Apparent Networks now (2007) has more than 50 employees and has just launched a new product called appCritical.

The main products are appareNet available in several versions tailored to customer requirements and appCritical.

One of the focus areas for the appareNet network intelligence system has been voice over IP, greatly enhancing the quality of customer systems.

Research is headed up by Chief Scientist Loki Jorgenson, whom has spearheaded several innovative initiatives[1] for the company. Some of the projects have included participants from Internet2 and CANARIE.

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