entered administration ; some staff and ip bought by cray 1 founded march 2007 defunct october 2013 2013 10 headquarters bristol uk key people eddie minshull executive chairman fred homewoood cto tony ford coo mike cartwright cfo products switches number of employees 51 peak website www.gnodal.com gnodal was a computer networking company headquartered in bristol uk . the company designed and sold network switches for datacenter high performance computing and high frequency trading environments . gnodal s products were based on its own peta asic which was the basis of a family of 1ru and 2ru 10 gigabit ethernet low latency switches including the gs7200 2 switch . gnodal s products ran a linux based network operating system gnos os which was based on aricent s iss product . contents 1 corporate history 2 technology 2.1 low latency asic 3 products 3.1 ethernet switches 4 major competitors 5 references 6 external links corporate history edit gnodal was founded in march 2007 by fred homewood tony ford jon beecroft david hewson and ed turner all formerly of quadrics matt hatch joined the founding group in july 2007 . the company was funded by this group until april 2008 then receiving 1.1 m 3 seed funding from adrian beecroft former cio of apax partners nesta 4 south west ventures fund 5 and finance south west growth fund 6 both managed at the time by yfm 7 . will leonard formerly at xyratex was appointed as a non executive director and chairman by the investors at this time . dawn capital 8 9 an ecf joined the other funds in an a round of unspecified size completed in july 2009 . on september 1 2010 eddie minshull joined the company as chairman replacing will leonard in that role . at the time eddie was also ceo of mlltelecom 10 and was formerly evp of worldwide field operations 11 for juniper networks . in 2011 gnodal launched its first products 12 13 at interop 14 in las vegas may 2011 . also in 2011 mike cartwright joined the company as cfo . in march 2012 bob fernander 15 joined the company replacing fred homewood as ceo . fred took the role of full time cto after bob s appointment . at the interop trade show in may 2012 gnodal won best of interop for networking with its 72 port 40gbe switch 16 in las vegas . at 2ru for 72x 40gbe ports this switch was the most dense at the time . 17 in march 2013 beb fernander left gnodal and eddie minshull was appointed executive chairman in a significant reorganisation that included a major reduction in staffing levels . unconfirmed rumours indicated that fernander had failed to close a required funding round . in may 2013 gnodal announced a 36 port 40gbe switch the gs0036 at interop in las vegas . 18 on october 4 2013 gnodal limited the uk operating company went into administration with bdo being appointed as the administrator . 19 on november 1 2013 cray announced the acquisition of the gnodal ip and team in europe 20 21 with gnodal ceasing trading as a result . all the remaining founders jon beecroft tony ford david hewson fred homewood ed turner and employees joined cray on that date . technology edit low latency asic edit gnodal s technology was implemented in their own low latency asic and customised software stack . this used a number of techniques patented and commercial secret to implement a multi path ethernet switching system based on multiple co operating asics without loops delivering low end to end latency with intra packet load balancing delivered over in band connections . 22 23 products edit ethernet switches edit gnodal s product line could be separated into two groups top of rack included gs7200 and gs4008 allowed standard based connectivity to servers and devices via standard 10gbe sfp optics or 40gbe qsfp connections fabric 24 gs0018 full line rate 18 port 40gb top of rack fabric switch with qsfp links in 1ru . gs0036 full line rate 36 port 40gb top of rack fabric switch with 36 qsfp links in 1ru . gs0072 full line rate 72 port 40gb top of rack fabric switch with 72 qsfp links in 2ru . major competitors edit brocade communications systems cisco systems dell following acquisition of force10 extreme networks arista networks juniper networks avaya references edit cray snaps up gnodal team . scientific computing world . europa science . 4 november 2013 . retrieved 2 january 2015 . gnodal solarflare demo low latency 10gbe press release . solarflare . 1 november 2011 . retrieved 16 november 2011 . crimson business 23 june 2008 . gnodal gains 1.1 m to benefit from data growth . growing business . nesta portfolio south west ventures fund finance south west yorkshire fund managers press release 20 july 2008 . gnodal ltd receives an investment . dealpedia . dawn portfolio press release 13 november 2008 . mll telecom appoints eddie minshull . journalism.co.uk . pressroom 26 august 2002 . juniper networks announces global sales management team . juniper networks press release . nick flaherty 13 may 2011 . gnodal hits 1.5 tbit s with its first products . electronics weekly . press release 13 may 2011 . gnodal unveils revolutionary 10 40 gigabit ethernet portfolio to enable low latency scalable ethernet for the enterprise . business wire . jim duffy 13 may 2011 . startup rolls out 40g data center switches at interop . network world . gnodal 26 april 2012 . bob fernander joins gnodal as ceo to drive growth . high frequency trading review . kurt marko 11 may 2012 . gnodal gs0072 the baddest switch at interop . information week . rich brueckner 24 june 2012 . gnodal gs0072 the baddest switch at interop . insidehpc . gnodal 7 may 2013 . gnodal launches high density low latency 40 gbe 1ru switch . gnodal . the london gazette 9 oct 2013 . notice 1917007 issue 60652 . the london gazette . loek essers 1 nov 2013 . cray acquires gnodal research staff and ip in europe . pcworld . press release 1 nov 2013 . cray expands research and development in europe . cray . how gnodal solves the high performance switching problem inherent in the cloud . retrieved 2015 02 12 . taylor john . lowest latency highest density pdf . retrieved 2015 02 12 . greg ferro 19 january 2012 . gnodal a new type of fabric and silicon . etherealmind.com . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gnodal & oldid 646798216 categories networking hardware companiesbritish companies established in 2007hidden categories use dmy dates from march 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 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