Barefoot Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in
Santa Clara, California
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. The company designs and produces programmable
network switch
A network switch (also called switching hub, bridging hub, and, by the IEEE, MAC bridge) is networking hardware that connects devices on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destination device.
A netw ...
silicon, systems and software. The company was acquired by Intel in 2019.
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Background
Barefoot Networks was founded in 2013. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz
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, Lightspeed Venture Partners
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The company invests in the U.S. and a ...
and Sequoia Capital
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. The company's co-founders are Nick McKeown Nicholas (Nick) William McKeown FREng, is the SVP/GM of the Network and Edge Group at Intel and a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. He has also started technology companies in Silicon ...
, Martin Izzard, Pat Bosshart, and Stefanos Sidiropoulos. Dan Lenoski joined in 2014 and was also given co-founder status. The company came out of stealth mode
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When an entire company is in stealth mode it may attempt to ...
on June 14, 2016. The company also announced a third round led by Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell, and Google
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. Later in 2016, the company announced additional funding from Alibaba Group and Tencent
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.Intel
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announced it was acquiring Barefoot for an undisclosed price.
Products
Barefoot Tofino
Barefoot Tofino 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
Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitorin ...
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
External links
* {{official website, https://barefootnetworks.com
P4 website
Information technology companies of the United States
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Networking hardware companies
American companies established in 2013