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Endace Ltd
Company typePublic Listed on AIM
IndustryNetwork monitoring Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention System
Founded2001
HeadquartersAuckland, 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,
ProductsSeries 3000 and Series 7000 EndaceProbes, DAG Cards
Revenue$31.0 million USD for the year ended 31 March 2010
Websitewww.endace.com

Endace Ltd is a New Zealand-headquartered company specializing in high performance network packet capture and monitoring. Its DAG technology enables ISPs, top-tier telcos and government agencies to guard against viruses, hackers and other network attacks by capturing 100% of the traffic [1]passing through their networks.

Introduction and market context

With cyber security and internet crime on the rise[2], burgeoning internet traffic volumes and network speeds being upgraded to >10gb/s line rates, traditional software-based approaches to network monitoring and security are beginning to struggle. There is growing evidence that a hardware-based approach to network visibility is the only way to satisfy the scalability and performance requirements of those managing sophisticated/critical infrastructures.

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[3]. It became the first New Zealand company to list on the London Alternative Investment Market AIM (EPIC: EDA) when it floated in mid-June 2005[4].

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

Customer segments

In addition to network monitoring/cyber security solutions for Government agencies and ISPs/telcos, the company has also established a niche capability and reputation monitoring latency within ultra fast/high frequency trading (financial services) environments thanks to the precise timestamping (at nano-second accuracy) and 100% packet capture (at 10Gb/s line rates) delivered by their technology. Interestingly their technology is increasingly being used by low latency service providers such as Spread Networks to demonstrate to their customers that they are meeting their performance SLAs [5] or out-performing others.

Business strategy

In 2007 Endace began its transition from card manufacturer to systems vendor with the release of the NinjaProbe appliance range[6] based on DAG technology. The company now offers a complete 'fabric' solution based on it's latest EndaceProbe range ans 'OSm' software and application suite and 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[7].

Products

  • DAG Cards: DAG 9.2X2 - the world’s first 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 - a comprehenisve ready-to-use set of network management and analytical tools. DAG technology enable:

  • Guaranteed 100% packet capture[8], at any size and transferred directly to host memory with almost zero CPU utilization[9].
  • 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.

References

  1. ^ NSS Labs Q3 2010 Product Test Endace Core100
  2. ^ Cyber threats top national security concerns 10/18/2010 - Computer Weekly
  3. ^ Computer Science Department, University of Waikato
  4. ^ Growth Business: Endace poised to take AIM
  5. ^ Spread Networks Promises 13.33ms Connection between New York and Chicago, A-Team Group - 22 June 2010
  6. ^ » For feds seeking needles, Endace turns telco data into real-time haystacks | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
  7. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking
  8. ^ Digital Media Asia: News - Endace enhances Calea support in Ninjaprobe appliances
  9. ^ Datamonitor ComputerWire - Endace Claims First Customer for 40Gb Monitoring Technology

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