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| Type | Public LSE: AIM EDA |
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| Industry | Network monitoring Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention System |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Key people | Ian Graham, Chairman John Scott, Senior Independent Director Mark Rowan, Non-executive Director Mark Giles, Non-executive Director Mike Riley, CEO Stuart Wilson, CTO Jason Moore, General Manager EMEA Rick Truitt, VP Sales Bill Cantrell, VP Partner Sales & Govt Solutions Len Weinstein, VP of Sales Neil Hopkins, Finance Director, |
| Products | Series 3000 and Series 7000 EndaceProbes, DAG Cards |
| Revenue | $31.0 million USD for the year ended 31 March 2010 |
| Website | www.endace.com |
Endace Ltd is a New Zealand-headquartered company specializing in high performance (100% packet capture) network monitoring and analysis.[1][2] Started in 2001, in 2005, they became the first company in New Zealand listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.[3] By 2008 the company's net worth had reached NZ$170 million.[3]
In August 2010 they made the decision to return their manufacturing facility back to New Zealand. In Christchurch, the Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key took the first product off of the assembly line.[4]
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[edit] Background
The company was founded in 2001 after the success of the DAG project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato.[5][6] The first cards designed at the University had the following design aims:
- Accurate and high resolution time measurement, locally or globally synchronised (<1 microsecond)
- Wide range of protocols and network speeds
- Flexible, programmable design
- Low cost, open architecture
- Transmit capability for testing
It became the first New Zealand company to list on London's Alternative Investment Market AIM (EPIC: EDA) when it floated in mid-June 2005[7] a move which was not without controversy.[8] Poor share price performance in the early years and a seeming failure to attract a broad enough shareholder base lent weight to the criticism that Endace should have focused initially on developing its local profile (via NZX) rather than pushing for overseas investment (via London AIM). Further the company's transition from card manufacturer to network monitoring appliance vendor was far from plain sailing and recent years provide an interesting case study on the challenges facing small companies as they seek to move up the service value chain and achieve prominence in remote markets
[edit] Markets
In addition to network monitoring/cyber security solutions for Government agencies and ISPs/telcos, the company also monitors latency within ultra fast/high frequency trading (financial services) environments thanks to the precise timestamping (at nano-second accuracy) and 100% packet capture (at 10Gbit/s line rates) delivered by their technology.
[edit] Monitoring coverage
The company's monitoring capability covers most if not all SDH (the synchronous digital hierarchy standard), SONET and Ethernet link types that include OC768 / 40 Gigabit as well as older protocols such as E1/T1 and DS3.[9]
[edit] Products
- DAG Cards: DAG 9.2X2 - 2 port GbE/10GbE PCI-E Gen-II capture card
- Series 3000 EndaceProbe
- Series 7000 EndaceProbe
All EndaceProbes use Endace's DAG technology and come with OSm which includes Endace Application Dock and Endace Application Suite. DAG technology enables:
- Guaranteed 100% packet capture,[10] at any size and transferred directly to host memory with almost zero CPU utilization.
- Applications to offload processor-intensive tasks, normally handled in the CPU, onto the DAG card.
- Precise packet time stamping for applications that require highly accurate measurements.
- Programmable hardware-based traffic filtering and CPU load balancing through an advanced network processing engine.
[edit] References
- ^ NSS Labs Q3 2010 Product Test Endace Core100
- ^ "ENDACE LTD (EDA:NL): Company Description - BusinessWeek". Bloomberg Businessweek investing database. Bloomberg L.P.. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?ticker=EDA:LN. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Endace, from start-up to world leader". Government of New Zealand. http://www.frst.govt.nz/files/images/ICT_Endace.pdf. Retrieved 9 February 2011. "In 2005, it became the first New Zealand company listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM)."
- ^ "Kiwi company Endace bringing manufacturing home". New Zealand: Geekzone. 27 August 2010. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8911. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- ^ Computer Science Department, University of Waikato
- ^ "Yoke Har Lee: Life's a bit of a DAG for hi-tech firm". The New Zealand Herald. 24 August 2009. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10592220. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Growth Business: Endace poised to take AIM
- ^ Inder, Richard (5 June 2006). "Endace's performance on UK AIM listing gives fuel to critics". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10384996. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking
- ^ Overview NSS Labs Endace EP Core-100 IDS Individual Test Report, Q3 2010
