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SmartNIC and Network Acceleration Industry-Leader to Highlight Major Server-Networking Disruption in Cloud, Data Center and Telco Markets

SANTA CLARA, CA, January 12, 2018 – Netronome, a leader in high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced that Perry Grace, CFO, and Leonard Donnelly, senior vice president, corporate business development, will be participating in the 20th Annual Needham Growth Conference being held at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York on January 18, 2018.

The unabated increase in deep learning tasks, mobile data traffic and general cloud adoption is driving exponential growth in server workloads. In addition, the combination of speed ...

Agilio® SmartNIC and Software Platform Offload, Accelerate Network and Data Plane Processing and Security in Qualcomm Centriq Processor Powered Servers

SANTA CLARA, CA, November 8, 2017 – Netronome, a leader in high performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced that its Agilio SmartNICs and software deliver industry-leading networking performance and efficiency to the new Qualcomm Centriq 2400™ server processors from Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. By offloading all networking and data plane path tasks from the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor, the Agilio solutions allow the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor to focus on processing applications, enabling Telco ...

Agilio® SmartNICs Recognized for Advancing Networking Technology in the SDN and NFV Industry

SANTA CLARA, CA, October 17, 2017 – Netronome, a leader in high performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced that its Agilio 10/25/40/100GbE SmartNIC platform has won Best New Product in Layer123’s Network Transformation Awards at the SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague, Netherlands. The inaugural Network Transformation Awards recognized achievements in advancing the industry to the next generation of networks, and the Agilio solutions from Netronome were awarded because of their unique contribution to accelerating and enhancing SDN and NFV workloads and ...

Seasoned Former Executive with 20 Years of Leadership at Tier 1 Communications OEM and Service Provider Companies will Help Drive Netronome’s Growth in the Security and NFV-related Enterprise and Data Center Markets

SANTA CLARA, CA, July 20, 2017 – Netronome, a leader in high performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced that Dr. Nils Rix has joined the company as senior vice president of sales. Dr. Rix is a global executive with in-depth sales and technology experience in the networking and communications industries at multiple successful first-tier technology and service providers. He brings with him unique experience in building, delivering ...

Netronome Agilio SmartNIC Platform Based on OPNFV Danube Boosts Networking Performance and Efficiency by More than 20X

SANTA CLARA, CA, June 12, 2017 – Netronome, a leader in high performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced support for the latest OPNFV software release, OPNFV Danube, and integration into its Agilio® SmartNIC platform, which helps improve networking performance by up to 4X while reducing CPU consumption by more than 5X. At the OPNFV Summit in Beijing, Open-NFP.org will host the OPNFV Data Plane and VNF Acceleration Mini-Summit, and will feature technical sessions focused on acceleration of VNFs within the framework of ...

Complete SDN Solution with Hardware Acceleration Enables Telco Operators to Improve Time to Revenue Utilizing High Performance 4G and 5G Applications at Low Total Cost of Ownership

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN – February 28, 2017 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions and Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, today announced support for the Agilio® CX SmartNIC platform in the Ericsson NFV infrastructure (NFVi) solution. The Agilio CX platform offloads and accelerates datapath processing in the Ericsson NFVi solution, freeing up CPU cores for vital revenue generating applications while keeping virtual machines (VMs) and ...

Joint Solution Harnesses the Power of Virtualization and Hardware Acceleration to Provide Improved Total Cost of Ownership and Greater Performance for Mobile Operators

SUNNYVALE, CA – February 27, 2017 – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced the availability of a carrier-grade cloud solution that allows the rapid implementation of mobile subscriber service virtual networks functions (VNFs) with the performance, reliability and scale that customers expect. The solution combines Affirmed Networks® Mobile Content Cloud™ virtualized evolved packet core solution (vEPC) with Juniper Networks® Contrail Networking and Netronome® Agilio® SmartNICs to significantly improve performance ...

DevOps-friendly P4-based Implementation Instantly Detects Performance Anomalies across Network, Server and VM Infrastructures; Enables Reliable and Secure Applications at Significantly Higher Speeds and Lower Latencies

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 27, 2017 – Barefoot Networks, the creator of Tofino™, the world’s fastest 6.5 Tb/s Ethernet switch chip, and Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today demonstrated a solution that combines the unique capabilities of the Agilio® CX SmartNIC platform from Netronome with Barefoot's Tofino™ P4-programmable switch to deliver precise and real-time network telemetry information needed to detect, root-cause and correct network problems ...

Agilio® Hardware and Software Integrated with Juniper Networks Contrail Networking, Mirantis OpenStack with OpenContrail SDN Solution, and Nuage Networks from Nokia Virtualized Services Platform Offers a Wide Range of Choices to Telco Operators for Lowering their Total Cost of Ownership

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 27, 2017 –Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced that its flagship Agilio CX SmartNIC platform has been integrated into a wide range of NFV infrastructure (NFVi) solutions from leading OEMs, including Juniper Networks, Mirantis and Nuage Networks from Nokia. These integrations offer Telco operators incredible options as they ...

Optimized Hardware and Software Solution Increases Throughput and Efficiency for IoT and Video Services in 4G and 5G Networks; Maintains VM/VNF Mobility and Hardware-Independence

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 27, 2017 –Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions and a Nuage Networks from Nokia technology partner, today demonstrated that its Agilio® CX SmartNIC Platform with the Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) brings significantly higher overall NFV infrastructure performance. In addition to significantly increasing throughput, offloading the VXLAN encapsulation/de-encapsulation and match-action processing of network packets in an SDN environment frees up valuable processing cycles ...

Joint, OpenStack-Enabled Cloud Solution Integrated with Netronome Agilio® SmartNIC 10/25/40GbE Platforms Delivers Wire-Rate, Low Latency VNF, While Improving Cloud Efficiency and Maintaining Full VM Mobility

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN – February 27, 2017 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions today announced Agilio SmartNIC acceleration support for OpenContrail and Mirantis OpenStack, achieving up to 20X higher throughput than software-only based solutions for applications in VMs while saving up to 10 CPU cores and maintaining full VM mobility and hardware independence. As a result, flexibility of on-demand network functions required in modern SDN and NFV infrastructure ...

Agilio Server Networking Platforms With XVIO Technology Resolve OpenStack-Based Private and Public Cloud Operational and Performance Challenges with Turnkey Cloud Solutions from Ericsson and Juniper Networks, Platforms Deliver Hardware-Based Efficiencies While Maintaining Full VM Mobility

OPENSTACK SUMMIT, BARCELONA, SPAIN – OCTOBER 25, 2016 –Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced the addition of Express Virtio (XVIO) technology to its Agilio™ Server Networking Platform. An industry first, the innovative XVIO technology eliminates significant operational, performance and server efficiency-related challenges. XVIO brings to the standard Virtio drivers available in many Guest OS’s the level of performance of ...

The Agilio CX Dual-Port 25GbE Server Networking Platform Delivers Scalable, High-Performance and Zero-Trust Security While Improving Server Efficiency and Cutting Cabling Costs for Cloud, SDN and NFV Applications

SILICON VALLEY OPENSTACK SUMMIT, SANTA CLARA, CA – AUGUST 9, 2016 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today further enhanced its flagship Agilio Server Networking Platform by announcing the Agilio™ CX dual-port 25GbE SmartNIC and Agilio OVS Firewall software. The hardware and software-based platform is integrated with the Mirantis OpenStack solution for seamless cloud-based provisioning. Compared to other 25GbE server adapter solutions in the market, the Agilio 25GbE platform ...

Netronome’s Newest Integrated Development Environment Vastly Improves Cloud Service Provider SLAs and Developer Productivity; Enables Seamless Programming of Highly Efficient, Software-Defined Networking Applications on the Agilio Server Networking Platform

Demonstrations of Agilio Server Networking Platform with Enhanced OpenStack Networking Showcases Up To 6X Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Broader Cloud IaaS, Enterprise IT and Telco NFV Workloads

OPENSTACK SUMMIT, AUSTIN, TEXAS – APRIL 25, 2016 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced the SDN and NFV industry’s first ever demonstrations of high-performance, efficient cloud networking orchestration using OpenStack together with a comprehensive range of popular open source server-based networking solutions. With Agilio™ CX intelligent server adapters and software from Netronome, hardware-based efficiencies currently available in OpenStack networking can now be extended beyond small ...

Netronome to Address Increasing Networking Capabilities at the Edge of the Network using Server-based Networking

SANTA CLARA, CA – MARCH 11, 2016 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, will be participating in a joint plenary session with AT&T on March 15, 2016, at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA. In the session, Netronome will be discussing the Cloud and SDN-driven paradigm of “Intelligence at the Edge” and what new capabilities are uncovered through the combination of Intelligent Server Adapters (ISAs) and x86 CPUs when implementing server-based networking. Learn more here.

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Nic Viljoen, Research Engineer ...

Ericsson Cloud SDN Platform Accelerated by the Agilio™ Server-Based Networking Solution from Netronome Delivers up to 5X Higher Virtual Machine Density and Performance per Server Rack

BARCELONA, SPAIN, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – February 22, 2016 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, and Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, today announced a joint demonstration of the Ericsson Cloud SDN Platform accelerated by the Netronome Agilio server-based networking solution. The demonstration, featured this week in Ericsson’s exhibit booth (Hall 2, Stand 2N60) at Mobile World Congress, will showcase significant reduction of total cost of ownership ...

Broadband, Colfax and DSCon to Provide Agilio Server-Based Networking Solution in North America, Western Europe and Russia

SANTA CLARA, CA – FEBRUARY 17, 2016 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced partnerships with Broadband, Colfax International and DSCon to bring the Agilio™ Server Networking Platform to end-users in North America, Western Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Broadband, Colfax and DSCon join existing Netronome worldwide channel partners in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

“The Agilio server-based networking platform enables businesses of all sizes to dramatically increase the efficiency of their Cloud, SDN and ...

New Agilio™ Server-Based Intelligent Networking Solutions Unite the Speed and Flexibility of Networking Software Innovation with the Performance and Efficiency of Hardware; Deliver Up to 5X Higher Throughput and Reduce CPU Requirements by Up to 80 Percent

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 26, 2016 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced its Agilio Server Networking Platform, the first intelligent, software and hardware-based solution designed to completely and transparently offload server-based networking data paths, such as open virtual switch (OVS), Juniper Networks® Contrail vRouter, and Linux® firewall. The Agilio platform enables businesses of all sizes to dramatically ...

Santa Clara, CA - January 8, 2016 - Netronome®, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced that it will present at the 18th Annual Needham Growth Conference in New York City on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 2:30pm Eastern Time. The presentation at the New York Palace Hotel will feature Netronome’s CEO and Co-Founder, Niel Viljoen and CFO, Perry Grace.

The Needham Growth Conference will operate from January 12 through January 14, 2016 giving institutional investors, private equity firms and venture capitalists access to over 375 public and private growth companies from a broad range of ...

Santa Clara, CA – November 17, 2015 – Netronome, a leading provider of high-performance intelligent networking solutions, today announced its inaugural P4/C developer’s conference for networking data path experts designing or conducting research on host-based networking applications. P4, a high-level data path programming language defined by the P4 Consortium, is a promising technology that can be augmented with C-based applications to enable hardware-accelerated and host-based networking data path functions such as virtualization, security, traffic management, and telemetry applications.

At the conference, commercial and academic developers will learn about the Netronome® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that includes the open-source P4 ...

Santa Clara, CA – June 15, 2015 – Netronome today announced the company will demonstrate its next-generation SmartNIC solutions that address key performance, efficiency and security challenges posed by SDN and NFV architectures, at the Open Networking Summit 2015 June 15 – 18 in Booth 217. Designed with standards-based open networking software supporting open vSwitch (OVS), OpenStack and DPDK, these breakthrough SmartNICs are designed for standard servers and semi-custom appliances and feature a range of price/performance options. Netronome® SmartNICs are purpose-built for cloud-scale and next-generation datacenters with advanced scalability and security capabilities that deliver best-in-class price/performance.

“Data center architects are ...

Santa Clara, CA – June 1, 2015 – Netronome today announced its ongoing technology collaboration with Microsoft at the upcoming tmforumlive! Conference June 1 – 4 in Nice, France to demonstrate dynamic load balancing across multiple virtual machines (VMs) operating in multi-cloud environments. The demonstration is a key part of the Multi-Cloud SDN-NFV Service Orchestration segment of the tmforumlive! Catalyst program. Catalyst projects showcase rapid-fire proof-of-concept demonstrations that bring together leading innovators leveraging TM Forum best practices and standards to ensure technology scalability, reuse, and reduced costs and risks.

This Catalyst project extends the Netronome/Microsoft collaboration from last December’s TM ...

Santa Clara, CA – April 28, 2015 – Netronome today announced it will be demonstrating high-performance networking solutions for cloud, data center, service provider and enterprise communications products in the InteropNet SDN Lab. Interop Las Vegas, the leading technology conference for the global IT community, is being held from April 28 to May 1, 2015. The SDN Lab tests the interoperability of open source and vendor products and demonstrates SDN concepts in a variety of scenarios. Netronome will also be exhibiting in booth #1267 to showcase its family of SDN-enabled hardware and software products.

“Netronome’s Smart Flow Processing solutions include ...

Santa Clara, CA. – April 20, 2015 – Netronome today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Niel Viljoen, will present at AGC Partners’ 11^th Annual Information Security Conference being held April 20-21, 2015 at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, California. Mr. Viljoen will present on Monday, April 20 at 9:15 a.m. in the Information Security Private Company Track. Also in attendance will be Netronome’s Chief Financial Officer Perry Grace.

Now in its 11^th year, AGC’s information security conference is being held in conjunction with the annual RSA security conference at Moscone Center in ...

Santa Clara, CA. – April 20, 2015 – Netronome today announced that the company will demonstrate its portfolio of Flow Processors, FlowNICs and software solutions at RSA in Booth #S1733. These smart flow processing solutions are designed to futureproof hyperscale and next-generation datacenters with advanced scalability and security while delivering best-in-class price/performance.

“2015 is shaping up to be the year of Software-Defined Everything,” said Netronome Senior Vice President and General Manager of Marketing Jarrod Siket. “This has significant implications for networking and security equipment designers who must figure out how best to deliver cloud-scale security, performance and economics for enterprise ...

Santa Clara, CA. – March 10, 2015 – Netronome today announced it has submitted a draft specification to the Open Compute Project (OCP) for an Open Cloud Server (OCS) 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) programmable server adapter mezzanine card. The design dramatically improves data center server efficiency by offloading the virtual switch datapath used for server and network virtualization, and delivering application and tenant-level security using software defined networking (SDN).

Netronome will be showing the industry’s first 40GbE programmable server adapter for Open Cloud Server at the Open Compute Project Summit 2015 held on March 10-11 at the San ...

Newport Beach, CA – March 5, 2015 – Netronome today announced that its Chief Executive Officer Niel Viljoen will present at the 27th Annual ROTH Conference being held March 8 – 11, 2015 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Laguna Niguel, CA. Mr. Viljoen will present on Tuesday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in the Private Company Track that is designed to provide investors with unique insights into emerging growth companies. Also in attendance will be Netronome’s Chief Financial Officer Perry Grace.

The ROTH Conference features presentations from select growth companies by way of Q&A sessions, expert panels and one-on-one ...

Santa Clara, CA. – February 18, 2015 – Netronome today announced it will showcase solutions for intelligent, programmable server adapters in high-speed software-defined networks as a Gold Sponsor at the Linley Data Center Conference 2015. The conference, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, California, on February 25–26, will focus on the processors, components and interconnects for next generation data center servers and networking.

In addition to Netronome’s prominent presence as a sponsor and exhibitor at the conference, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Strategy and Data Center Business Unit, Sujal Das, will deliver a widely anticipated ...

San Francisco, CA – February 9, 2015 – Netronome today announced that it will present at the Stifel Technology, Internet & Media Conference to be held February 9 – 10, 2015 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. In attendance will be Netronome’s Chief Executive Officer Niel Viljoen and Chief Financial Officer Perry Grace. Stifel conferences provide institutional investors with high-level access to senior management and industry experts to showcase dynamic emerging companies and investigate critical trends that are driving the global economy.

Mr. Viljoen will present on February 9th from 11:30 am – 12:00 pm PST ...

Santa Clara, CA – January 8, 2015 – Netronome today announced that its Chief Executive Officer Niel Viljoen will present at the 17th Annual Needham Growth Conference (NGC) being held on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 in New York City. NGC provides institutional investors, private equity firms and venture capitalists access to over 375 growth companies from a broad range of industries, including semiconductors, communications and enterprise infrastructure.

Mr. Viljoen will focus on the dramatic transformation that networks are undergoing as they transition from vertically integrated, proprietary systems to open, software-defined, commodity platforms. He will also discuss Netronome’s role in improving ...

Santa Clara, CA – October 15, 2014 – Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for software-defined networks (SDN), today announced that the company’s solutions for SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) designs will be demonstrated along with their partners in several venues at the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany, October 13-20, 2014. The premier SDN and NFV event in Europe will feature two presentations by Netronome industry experts, as well as three demonstrations with industry partners.

Netronome FlowNIC acceleration cards and FlowEnvironment software will power standard x86-based servers in three ...

Santa Clara, CA – October 14, 2014 Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for software-defined networks (SDN), today announced that the company will jointly demonstrate a solution, with Advantech and Spirent Communications, for high-performance appliances and servers in carrier-grade SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) designs. The demonstration will be featured in the ONF SDN Solutions Showcase at the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The demonstration features the Advantech® CGS-6010 server with Netronome® FlowNIC PCIe acceleration cards and FlowEnvironment software. The solution targets high-bandwidth virtualized environments where load balancing ...

Santa Clara, CA – October 8, 2014 – Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for software-defined networks (SDN), today announced Sujal Das has joined the executive management team as the senior vice president and general manager of strategy and Data Center Business Unit. Das brings more than 20 years of experience with success in leading growth for a number of networking semiconductor companies including Broadcom, Mellanox and Marvell.

“Sujal’s leadership and experience will help us continue building and enhancing Netronome’s success in the data center market,” says Niel Viljoen, CEO and founder ...

Santa Clara, CA – July 8, 2014 – Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for Software-Defined Networks (SDN), today announced the appointment of Sean Maloney to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Maloney held a variety of executive roles during a 30-year career at Intel, most recently serving as chairman of Intel China.

“Sean’s proven track record and deep industry knowledge has made him an invaluable voice and leader in the industry,” said Robert Sansom, chairman of the board at Netronome. “Netronome has achieved record revenue growth and is well positioned for ...

Santa Clara, CA – May 30, 2014 – Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for software-defined networks (SDN), today announced that one of their industry experts will present at the Network Virtualization & SDN World and the API Forum in London May 29-30, on behalf of Netronome and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).

Nabil Damouny, senior director of strategic marketing at Netronome, Rapporteur of the Compute-Storage Domain at ETSI NFV and vice chair of Marketing Committee, ONF, will participate in the panel discussion, “Realizing the Benefits of Community Openness and Collaboration,” and present, “Developing ...

Santa Clara, CA – April 17, 2014 – Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for software-defined networks (SDN), today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the Netronome SDN middlebox solution as a 2014 Excellence in SDN Award winner presented by TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine and SDN Zone.

“It is exciting to have our SDN middlebox solution recognized as an innovative product for SDN,” said Jarrod Siket, Netronome’s senior vice president of marketing. “This solution is a testament to our powerful technology and leadership in the emerging software-defined networking ...

Santa Clara, CA – March 4, 2014 – Netronome, the leading provider of data plane processing solutions for software-defined networks (SDN), today announced a platform architecture to augment virtual switch implementations with hardware acceleration NICs in standard servers for SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) designs. The new products include a suite of FlowNIC™ PCIe Gen3 cards that scale up to 200 Gbps, along with a new FlowEnvironment™ software package that provides standards-based APIs and configuration protocols for virtual switch offload and acceleration.

“Netronome solves the scalability problem of virtual switch implementations in the intelligent network locations ...

Santa Clara, CA – February 25, 2014 – Netronome, the leading developer of flow processors, today announced that the company will be demonstrating reference platforms designed to scale cyber security applications to 100 Gbps at RSA 2014. The solution, consisting of Netronome’s flow processors, acceleration cards, and software, accelerates standard x86 platforms in SDN networks and network functions virtualization (NFV) designs.

Taking place from February 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, RSA 2014 brings industry leaders and security experts together to examine the latest advances in technology and discuss security challenges facing organizations. Netronome ...