Company:Barefoot Networks
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| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | Networking software, Cloud Networking |
| Founded | May 2013 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California , USA |
Key people | Craig Barratt, CEO Nick McKeown, Chief Scientist, Co-Founder & Chairman, Pat Bosshart, CTO, Co-Founder Dan Lenoski, VP Engineering, Co-Founder Ed Doe, VP Product & Marketing Dailene Bray, VP Finance |
| Products | Programmable Networking Chips, Systems and Software |
| Website | barefootnetworks |
Barefoot Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.[1] The company designs and produces programmable network switch silicon, systems and software.
Background
Barefoot Networks was founded in 2013. The company raised seed funding in 2013.[2] The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The company's co-founders are Nick McKeown, Martin Izzard, Pat Bosshart. Later, Dan Lenoski joined in 2014 and was also given co-founder status. The company came out of stealth mode on June 14, 2016 [3][4] The company also announced a third round led by Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell and Google.[5] Later in 2016, the company announced additional funding from Alibaba Group and Tencent.[6]
Products
Barefoot Tofino
Barefoot TofinoTM is a P4 programmable switch chip that can run up to speeds of 6.5 Tbit/s.
Programmability
P4 is a programming language designed to allow programming of packet forwarding dataplanes.
Barefoot Deep Insight
Barefoot Deep Insight is a network monitoring system that provides full visibility into every packet in a network. Running on commodity servers, Barefoot Deep Insight interprets, analyzes and pinpoints a myriad of conditions that can impede packet flow, and does so in real time and at line-rate.
References
- ↑ Lawson, Stephen. "Barefoot Networks may have built the world's fastest networking switch chip" (in en). Computerworld. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3083761/networking/barefoot-networks-may-have-built-the-worlds-fastest-networking-switch-chip.html.
- ↑ "Barefoot Networks on Crunchbase". https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/barefoot-networks#/entity.
- ↑ Don Clarke (June 14, 2016). "Stanford Professor's Startup Plans Novel Networking Chips". https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanford-professors-startup-plans-novel-networking-chips-1465912804.
- ↑ Cade Metz (June 14, 2016). "Barefoot Networks New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry". https://www.wired.com/2016/06/barefoot-networks-new-chips-will-transform-tech-industry/.
- ↑ Timothy Prickett Morgan (June 14, 2016). "The walls come down on the last bastion of proprietary". http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/14/walls-come-last-bastion-proprietary/.
- ↑ "Barefoot Networks' Ecosystem Attracts New Investors". Nov 22, 2016. https://barefootnetworks.com/press-releases/barefoot-networks-ecosystem-attracts-new-investors/.
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