Barefoot Networks

Barefoot Networks
Private company
Industry Networking software, Cloud Networking
Founded May 2013
Headquarters Santa Clara, California, USA
Key people
 Craig Barratt, CEO Nick McKeown, Chief Scientist, Co-Founder & Chairman,
Pat Bosshart, CTO, Co-Founder
Dan Lenoski, VP Engineering, Co-Founder
Ed Doe, VP Product & Marketing
Dailene Bray, VP Finance
Products Programmable Networking Chips, Systems and Software
Website barefootnetworks.com

Barefoot Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.[1] The company designs and produces programmable network switch silicon, systems and software.

Background

Barefoot Networks was founded in 2013. The company raised seed funding in 2013.[2] The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The company's co-founders are Nick McKeown, Martin Izzard, Pat Bosshart. Later, Dan Lenoski joined in 2014 and was also given co-founder status. The company came out of stealth mode on June 14, 2016 [3][4] The company also announced a third round led by Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell and Google.[5] Later in 2016, the company announced additional funding from Alibaba Group and Tencent.[6]

Products

Barefoot Tofino
Barefoot TofinoTM is a P4 programmable switch chip that can run up to speeds of 6.5 Tbit/s.

Programmability
P4 is a programming language designed to allow programming of packet forwarding dataplanes.

Barefoot Deep Insight
Barefoot Deep Insight is a network monitoring system that provides full visibility into every packet in a network. Running on commodity servers, Barefoot Deep Insight interprets, analyzes and pinpoints a myriad of conditions that can impede packet flow, and does so in real time and at line-rate.

References

  1. ↑ Lawson, Stephen. "Barefoot Networks may have built the world's fastest networking switch chip". Computerworld. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  2. ↑ "Barefoot Networks on Crunchbase".
  3. ↑ Don Clarke (June 14, 2016). "Stanford Professor's Startup Plans Novel Networking Chips".
  4. ↑ Cade Metz (June 14, 2016). "Barefoot Networks New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry".
  5. ↑ Timothy Prickett Morgan (June 14, 2016). "The walls come down on the last bastion of proprietary".
  6. ↑ "Barefoot Networks' Ecosystem Attracts New Investors". Nov 22, 2016.
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