| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Application Performance Management |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder(s) | Jesse Rothstein Raja Mukerji |
| Headquarters | Seattle, WA |
| Website | www.extrahop.com |
ExtraHop Networks, Inc. is an application performance management company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
ExtraHop sells enterprise network appliances that perform layer 2 through layer 7 (application-level) network traffic analysis.
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Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji founded ExtraHop in 2007. The co-founders were formerly senior engineers at F5 Networks and architects of the BIG-IP v9 product.
ExtraHop Networks has raised $6.6 million in funding from the Madrona Venture Group and other private investors including Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, and Ben Horowitz, former CEO of Opsware.[1] In May 2011, ExtraHop raised another $14 million in Series B financing in an oversubscribed round led by Meritech Capital Partners.[2]
The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is a passive network appliance. It receives network traffic and performs real-time full-stream reassembly to extract application-level protocol metrics.[3] Product modules include HTTP and HTTPS; common database protocols; directory protocols like LDAP, RADIUS, and Diameter; industry-specific protocols like Financial Information eXchange and SMPP; and storage protocols like CIFS, iSCSI, and Network File System.[4]
ExtraHop has two platforms for the Application Delivery Assurance appliance. The ExtraHop 2000 is a 1U appliance rated for networks with up to 1Gbps throughput, and the ExtraHop 5000 is a 2U appliance capable of handling up to 10Gbps of throughput.[5]
In April 2010, ExtraHop announced the launch of Network Timeout, a community website for IT professionals.[6] Network Timeout provides a free packet capture analysis service that utilizes ExtraHop's technology. The service won the 2010 Best of Interop Award for Network Management, Monitoring & Testing.[7]