Costa Mesa-based BandCon, which helps companies manage traffic flow on their websites, was acquired on Thursday by Florida’s Highwinds Network Group Inc.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
BandCon offers what’s called content delivery products—services and software that help companies run their websites by making sure viewers can access music, photo and video files.
To offer its services, BandCon leases space on networks owned by big telecommunications companies, such as AT&T Inc.
The company has operations at large data centers in more than a dozen cities across the country.
Privately-held BandCon has roughly 50 workers here.
Highwinds is set to keep BandCon’s local office and its network operations center.
Chief Executive Ari Benowitz is set to join Highwinds as its chief revenue officer and will report to Steve Liddell.
Liddell was hired recently by Highwinds as its new president of content delivery and network services.
Benowitz started BandCon in 2000 to provide options to Internet companies in the wake of the dot-com bust.
“There was a lot of bad management but also a lot of good ideas in those days,” he told the Business Journal. “We started BandCon to find a home that growing websites could stay.”
The company’s seen rapid growth as websites get savvier about using video and other big files, such as video, animation and music files.
The company’s services and software can be mixed and matched depending on demand.
BandCon sees estimated yearly sales of around $15 million.
In 2008, it was No. 8 on the Business Journal’s list of fast-growing private companies.
A year later, it took a tumble amid the downturn and the slowdown in tech spending, falling to No. 63 on the same list in 2009.
