Netronome
| Private company | |
| Industry | Cloud Networking |
| Founders | Niel Viljoen, David Wells, Johann Tonsing |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, USA |
| Products | Software, SmartNICs, Flow Processors |
| Website | www.netronome.com |
Netronome is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in the development of high-performance network hardware and associated software and services. Their products are designed to enable modern data center functionality such as network virtualization, security, load balancing, and telemetry. Their products are designed for use with x86 commercial off-the-shelf servers.
History
Netronome was founded in 2003 by Niel Viljoen, David Wells and Johann Tönsing, who had all previously worked for Marconi. Niel Viljoen served as Chief Technology Officer at Marconi, having been General Manager at Fore Systems, acquired by Marconi for $4.6 billion in 1999. Viljoen served as the CEO and president of Netronome from 2003 until 2011. Between February 2011 and 2013, Howard Bubb stepped in as Chief Executive Officer. However in July of that year Viljoen once again took over as CEO.
In November 2007, Netronome announced a technology licensing and sales and marketing agreement with Intel Corporation focused on the extension of the Intel IXP28XX product line of network processors. Under the terms of the agreement, Netronome is developing a next-generation line of IXP-compatible, high-end network processors that combine the Intel IXP28XX technology with Netronome's architecture.
In March 2010, Netronome announced it began shipping the Network Flow Processor (NFP–3240), specifically designed for tight coupling with x86 architectures.[1]
In January 2016, Netronome announced its Agilio family of server-based networking solutions.
Products
Netronome produces network flow processors, engines (PCIe expansion cards housing Netronome Silicon), processing platforms (1U & 2U chassis with 1 or more engines and flow processing software) and SSL inspectors.
Netronome’s Agilio Server Networking Platform enables businesses of all sizes to dramatically increase the efficiency of their data center compute infrastructure while preserving standard cloud configuration and automation tools. The Agilio platform is the first software- and hardware-based solution designed from the ground up to completely and transparently offload open source server-based networking data paths such as the widely deployed Open vSwitch (OVS).
The Agilio-CX family of Intelligent Server Adapters (ISAs) fully and transparently offload the entire virtual switch data path processing for networking functions such as overlays, security, load-balancing and telemetry, enabling compute servers used for server-based networking to deliver at their full potential.
The Agilio-LX family of Intelligent Server Adapters (ISA) are specifically designed for virtualized and non-virtualized x86 server-based Service Nodes and WAN Gateways. The solution delivers significant scaling and efficiencies for networking functions used in mobile core (e.g., vEPC), security (e.g., IDS/IPS, NGFW, DDoS), load balancing and gateway (VXLAN, MPLS-VLAN/VXLAN) applications.
Netronome Agilio Software works with the Agilio-CX and Agilio-LX family of intelligent server adapters, supporting compute node and service node applications. Agilio software implements server-based networking offloads to Agilio hardware.
References
- ↑ "Netronome Boosts Net Processors". Light Reading. Retrieved 2014-05-02.