Company type | Private |
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Industry | Networking hardware |
Founded | California 2008 |
Fate | shutdown and sold IP to Riverbed Technology, Inc. |
Headquarters | |
Website |
www |
Infineta Systems was a company that made WAN optimization products for high performance, latency-sensitive network applications. The company advertised that it allowed application data rate to exceed the nominal data rate of the link. Infineta Systems ceased operations by February 2013, a liquidator was appointed, and its products will no longer be manufactured, sold or distributed.
Riverbed Technology purchased some of Infineta's assets from the liquidator. [1]
Infineta was founded in 2008 by Raj Kanaya, the CEO, and K.V.S. Ramarao, the CTO. Ramarao concluded the computational resources, especially I/O operations and CPU cycles, associated with data compression technologies would ultimately limit their scalability. [2] He and Kanaya determined founded Infineta to develop algorithms and hardware. The company had six patents pending.
Infineta was headquartered in San Jose, California and attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners. [3] [4]
Infineta announced its Data Mobility Switch in June 2011. The DMS was the first WAN optimization technology to work at throughput rates of 10 Gbit/s. [5] Infineta designed the product in FPGA hardware around a multi- Gigabit switch fabric to minimize latency. The DMS used compression similar to data deduplication.
The product was designed to addresses the long-standing issue of TCP performance [6] on long fat networks, so even unreduced data can achieve throughputs equivalent to the WAN bandwidth. To illustrate what this means, take the example of transferring a 2.5 GBytes (20 billion bits) file from New York to Chicago (15 ms latency, 30 ms round-trip time ) over a 1 Gbit/s link. With standard TCP, which uses a 64 KB window size, the file transfer would take about 20 minutes. The theoretical maximum throughput is 1 Gbit/s, or about 20 seconds. The DMS performs the transfer in 19.5 to 21 seconds. [7]
Company type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Networking hardware |
Founded | California 2008 |
Fate | shutdown and sold IP to Riverbed Technology, Inc. |
Headquarters | |
Website |
www |
Infineta Systems was a company that made WAN optimization products for high performance, latency-sensitive network applications. The company advertised that it allowed application data rate to exceed the nominal data rate of the link. Infineta Systems ceased operations by February 2013, a liquidator was appointed, and its products will no longer be manufactured, sold or distributed.
Riverbed Technology purchased some of Infineta's assets from the liquidator. [1]
Infineta was founded in 2008 by Raj Kanaya, the CEO, and K.V.S. Ramarao, the CTO. Ramarao concluded the computational resources, especially I/O operations and CPU cycles, associated with data compression technologies would ultimately limit their scalability. [2] He and Kanaya determined founded Infineta to develop algorithms and hardware. The company had six patents pending.
Infineta was headquartered in San Jose, California and attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners. [3] [4]
Infineta announced its Data Mobility Switch in June 2011. The DMS was the first WAN optimization technology to work at throughput rates of 10 Gbit/s. [5] Infineta designed the product in FPGA hardware around a multi- Gigabit switch fabric to minimize latency. The DMS used compression similar to data deduplication.
The product was designed to addresses the long-standing issue of TCP performance [6] on long fat networks, so even unreduced data can achieve throughputs equivalent to the WAN bandwidth. To illustrate what this means, take the example of transferring a 2.5 GBytes (20 billion bits) file from New York to Chicago (15 ms latency, 30 ms round-trip time ) over a 1 Gbit/s link. With standard TCP, which uses a 64 KB window size, the file transfer would take about 20 minutes. The theoretical maximum throughput is 1 Gbit/s, or about 20 seconds. The DMS performs the transfer in 19.5 to 21 seconds. [7]