Endace
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| Type | Public Listed on AIM |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Key people | Selwyn Pellett, CEO John Scott, Chairman Ian Graham, Chief Scientist Stuart Wilson, CTO Greg Howard, VP Sales EMEA Bill Cantrell, VP Sales Americas Nicole Ho, VP Sales Asia Pacific Neil Hopkins, Finance Director |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | DAG Cards |
| Revenue | $10.9 million USD for the year ended 31 March 2006 |
| Slogan | Network Acceleration Made Easy |
| Website | www.endace.com |
Endace Ltd (founded 2001) is a New Zealand-based company specializing in network capture and monitoring products. The company was founded after the success of the DAG project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato.
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
Four generations of cards later and the company now covers most if not all SDH, SONET and Ethernet link types as well as older protocols such as E1/T1 and DS3.
Endace products utilize Endace's Data Acquisition Generation (DAG) technology.
DAG technology enables:
- 100% of the packets, at any size, to be captured and transferred directly to host memory with almost zero CPU utilization.
- Application developers 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.
