ExtraHop Networks, Inc. is an application performance management company
headquartered in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, USA.

ExtraHop sells enterprise network appliances that perform layer 2 through layer 7 (application-level)
network traffic analysis.

History

Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji founded ExtraHop in 2007. The co-founders were
formerly senior engineers at F5 Networks

F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc. is a networking appliances company. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has development and marketing offices worldwide. It originally manufactured and sold some of the very first load balancing products...

 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

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard...

, co-founder of Netscape

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

, and Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz is a high technology entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for co-founding and running the enterprise software company Opsware. In July 2007, Horowitz sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash...

, former CEO of Opsware

Opsware

Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers...

. In May 2011, ExtraHop raised another $14 million in Series B financing in an oversubscribed round led by Meritech Capital Partners

Meritech Capital Partners

Meritech Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on late stage venture capital investments in information technology companies with a focus on consumer Internet and media, software and services, enterprise infrastructure, and medical devices....

.

Products

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.
Product modules include HTTP and HTTPS

Https

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server...

; common database protocols; directory

Directory service

A directory service is the software system that stores, organizes and provides access to information in a directory. In software engineering, a directory is a map between names and values. It allows the lookup of values given a name, similar to a dictionary...

 protocols like LDAP; industry-specific protocols like Financial Information eXchange and SMPP; and storage protocols like CIFS, iSCSI

ISCSI

In computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...

, and Network File System

Network File System

Network File System is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing...

.

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

Throughput

In communication networks, such as Ethernet or packet radio, throughput or network throughput is the average rate of successful message delivery over a communication channel. This data may be delivered over a physical or logical link, or pass through a certain network node...

 and 300 devices,
and the ExtraHop 5000 is a 2U appliance capable of handling up to 10Gbps of throughput and 1000 devices.

Network Timeout

In April 2010, ExtraHop announced the launch of
Network Timeout, a community
website for IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 professionals. Network Timeout provides
a free packet capture

Packet capture

Packet capture is the act of capturing data packets crossing a computer network. Deep packet capture is the act of capturing, at full network speed, complete network packets crossing a network with a high traffic rate...

analysis service that utilizes ExtraHop's technology. The service won the 2010 Best of Interop Award for Network Management, Monitoring & Testing.

Awards

• Best Joint Application Performance/Network Solution - EMA Radar Report for ANPM Q3 2010.
• Best in Application Delivery Assurance - Network Products Guide.
• Best of Interop 2010 - Best Startup and Best in Network Management, Monitoring and Testing.
• Favorite Startup - NWJobs People's Picks 2009.

External links

• ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
• Network Timeout
• IT Blame Game