- Endace
Infobox_Company
company_name = Endace Ltd
company_
company_type = Public Listed on AIM | company_slogan = Network Acceleration Made Easy
foundation =2001
location =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
homepage = [http://www.endace.com/ 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 [ [http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/about/cooverview/thesource/sourcenewsarchive/15062005EndaceofNZ.htm London Stock Exchange - 15/06/2005 Endace of New Zealand closes the London markets ] ] . The company was founded after the success of the DAG project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at theUniversity of Waikato [ [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ Computer Science Department, University of Waikato ] ] . It become the first New Zealand company listed on the AIM Alternative Investment Market when it floated in mid-June 2005 [ [http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/news/17872/endace-poised-to-take-aim.thtml Growth Business: Endace poised to take AIM ] ] .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 testingIn 2007, Endace released NinjaProbe Appliances [ [http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=495 » For feds seeking needles, Endace turns telco data into real-time haystacks | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com ] ] 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking] .
Endace products use Endace's Data Acquisition Generation (DAG) technology.
DAG technology enables:
* 100% of the packets [ [http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=24429 Digital Media Asia: News - Endace enhances Calea support in Ninjaprobe appliances ] ] , at any size, to be captured and transferred directly to host memory with almost zero CPU utilization [ [http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=DD52D065-2A2C-4B90-889C-08C6457834B5 Datamonitor ComputerWire - Endace Claims First Customer for 40Gb Monitoring Technology ] ] .
* 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
External links
* [http://www.endace.com Endace Website]
* [http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/8F997E009F7EF7B9CC257283007CC931 Endace moves upmarket with appliance strategy]
* [http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00262.htm New Zealand Excellence Awards Winners Announced]
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