About Us

A Modern Day Tale of Innovation

The Sandvine story begins in June 2001 in Waterloo, Ontario; a thriving community and technology hub an hour West of Toronto. Named in 2007 as the World’s Top Intelligent Community for prosperity rooted in broadband and information technology, Waterloo overcame a declining economy and fostered a culture of learning, spawning a climate of growth in the region which now boasts a tech cluster of nearly 1,000 companies.

This success was earned due—in no small part—to the University of Waterloo. Built on a foundation of science, engineering and math, a globally recognized cooperative education program, and a progressive intellectual property policy, the University of Waterloo has paved the way for many successful technology start-ups in the region. Waterloo is also home to two other leading schools: Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College.

In December of 2000, the Sandvine founding team was afforded a unique opportunity with the acquisition of start-up Pixstream and the timing was right. Sandvine opened its doors in the Summer of 2001, and despite grim statistics of start-up failures at the time, adapted to market needs, thanks to a series of industry firsts.

It is Sandvine’s pioneering spirit that drives a continued focus on innovation. For the team of over 500 strong—spanning the globe and representing diverse cultures and interests—and a list of customers our competitors surely envy, it continues to be one exhilarating ride.

Our Story Continues

With an original toehold in North American cable as the building block of the business, it is through continued investment in research and development that our capacity to solve a breadth of problems across all network access types in all geographies has grown, allowing us to differentiate as a highly-specialized solution in a crowded competitive field.
Our Solution

Sandvine provides a single platform to introduce unified, standards-compliant network policy control into any fixed, mobile or converged access network, at any scale. Our feature breadth is unmatched, and by focusing exclusively on communications service providers (CSPs) we are able to comprehensively understand and anticipate the unique challenges network operators face.

How can this help you?

Our customers get earlier access to a wider range of tools and more powerful capabilities, allowing for countless use cases across a range of business needs with the benefits of providing actionable business insights, increasing revenue generation, and reducing network costs. From measuring video quality of experience (QoE), to deploying new subscriber services using our integrated charging capabilities, to extending infrastructure lifetime; we’ve got the solution for you.

The Innovation and Market Leader in Network Policy Control

An unmatched commitment to research and development delivers the industry-first, exclusive and standards-compliant solutions that let our customers out-maneuver their competition. From being first in the world to utilize peer-to-peer caching, to inventing stateful traffic redirection, to tracking the rise of video streaming, to supporting standards-based next-generation service innovation use cases across all access technologies, Sandvine has led the way and will continue to do so.