Endace
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| Endace Ltd | |
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| Type | Public Listed on AIM |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Key people | Selwyn Pellett, Chairman John Scott, Senior Independent Director Ian Graham, Chief Scientist Mark Rowan, Non-executive Director Andy Lark, Non-executive Director Stuart Wilson, CTO Mike Riley, CEO Stephen Gleave, VP Marketing Rob Pollard, VP Sales EMEA Bill Cantrell, VP Sales Americas Nicole Ho, VP Sales Asia Pacific Neil Hopkins, Finance Director, Joby Beretta, Group Legal Counsel and Company Secretary |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | NinjaProbe Appliances, DAG Cards |
| Revenue | $17.0 million USD for the year ended 31 March 2007 |
| Website | www.endace.com |
Endace Ltd (founded 2001) is a New Zealand-based company specializing in network capture and monitoring products. Endace's technology enables companies and government agencies to guard against viruses, hackers and other network attacks[1]. The company was founded after the success of the DAG project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato[2]. It become the first New Zealand company listed on the AIM Alternative Investment Market when it floated in mid-June of 2005[3].
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
In 2007, Endace released NinjaProbe Appliances[4] based on the DAG technology, and the company now 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[5].
Endace products use Endace's Data Acquisition Generation (DAG) technology.
DAG technology enables:
- 100% of the packets[6], at any size, to be captured and transferred directly to host memory with almost zero CPU utilization[7].
- 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
- ^ London Stock Exchange - 15/06/2005 Endace of New Zealand closes the London markets
- ^ Computer Science Department, University of Waikato
- ^ Growth Business: Endace poised to take AIM
- ^ » For feds seeking needles, Endace turns telco data into real-time haystacks | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking
- ^ Digital Media Asia: News - Endace enhances Calea support in Ninjaprobe appliances
- ^ Datamonitor ComputerWire - Endace Claims First Customer for 40Gb Monitoring Technology
