Endace
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Endace Ltd is a New Zealand
-headquartered company specializing in high performance (100% packet capture) network monitoring and analysis. Started in 2001, in 2005, they became the first company in New Zealand listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. By 2008 the company's net worth had reached NZ$170 million.
In August 2010 they made the decision to return their manufacturing facility back to New Zealand. In Christchurch, the Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key took the first product off of the assembly line.
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:
It became the first New Zealand company to list on London's Alternative Investment Market AIM
(EPIC: EDA) when it floated in mid-June 2005 a move which was not without controversy. Poor share price performance in the early years and a seeming failure to attract a broad enough shareholder base lent weight to the criticism that Endace should have focused initially on developing its local profile (via NZX) rather than pushing for overseas investment (via London AIM). Further the company's transition from card manufacturer to network monitoring appliance vendor was far from plain sailing and recent years provide an interesting case study on the challenges facing small companies as they seek to move up the service value chain
and achieve prominence in remote markets
All EndaceProbes use Endace's DAG technology and come with OSm which includes Endace Application Dock and Endace Application Suite. DAG technology enables:
New Zealand
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-headquartered company specializing in high performance (100% packet capture) network monitoring and analysis. Started in 2001, in 2005, they became the first company in New Zealand listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. By 2008 the company's net worth had reached NZ$170 million.
In August 2010 they made the decision to return their manufacturing facility back to New Zealand. In Christchurch, the Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key took the first product off of the assembly line.
Background
The company was founded in 2001 after the success of the DAGDAG Technology
DAG technology is a combination of hardware design and software , based on a programmable chip. It uses a uniquely designed memory buffer that allows network packets to be copied into onboard memory at extremely high speeds without dropping any packets...
project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato
University of Waikato
The University of Waikato is located in Hamilton and Tauranga, New Zealand, and was established in 1964. It has strengths across a broad range of subject areas, particularly its degrees in Computer Science and in Management...
. 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
It became the first New Zealand company to list on London's Alternative Investment Market AIM
Alternative Investment Market
AIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....
(EPIC: EDA) when it floated in mid-June 2005 a move which was not without controversy. Poor share price performance in the early years and a seeming failure to attract a broad enough shareholder base lent weight to the criticism that Endace should have focused initially on developing its local profile (via NZX) rather than pushing for overseas investment (via London AIM). Further the company's transition from card manufacturer to network monitoring appliance vendor was far from plain sailing and recent years provide an interesting case study on the challenges facing small companies as they seek to move up the service value chain
Value chain
The value chain, is a concept from business management that was first described and popularized by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.-Firm Level:...
and achieve prominence in remote markets
Markets
In addition to network monitoring/cyber security solutions for Government agencies and ISPs/telcos, the company also monitors latency within ultra fast/high frequency trading (financial services) environments thanks to the precise timestamping (at nano-second accuracy) and 100% packet capture (at 10Gbit/s line rates) delivered by their technology.Monitoring coverage
The company's monitoring capability 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.Products
- DAG Cards: DAG 9.2X2 - 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. DAG technology enables:
- Guaranteed 100% packet capture, at any size and transferred directly to host memory with almost zero CPU utilization.
- 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.
External links
- Endace Website
- Endace moves upmarket with appliance strategy
- New Zealand Excellence Awards Winners Announced
- Deloitte Emerging Enterprise Award 2007
- http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/7202