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borg denmark website www.napatech.com napatech is a public company based in denmark that develops and manufactures high speed network accelerators specifically designed for real time network monitoring and analysis applications . 1 the accelerators can be used in standard servers allowing oem vendors to build products using commercial off the shelf hardware . examples of typical applications are network performance monitoring test and measurement security and optimization . napatech s products are used in a variety of industries such as financial services telecom cloud and data center services e commerce and media infrastructure and defense as well as enterprise management and security . 2 the company which is an oem supplier with a base of over 140 000 ports deployed enables network equipment manufacturers to provide visibility into the performance and operation of their customers networks applications and data services . 3 napatech entered the oslo stock exchange in december 2013 . 4 contents 1 history 1.1 early days 1.2 acquisitions 2 products 3 discontinued accelerators 4 partners 5 locations 6 articles 7 website 8 references 9 references history edit early days edit napatech was founded in january 2003 as a privately owned company by jens christophersen and thomas j rgensen two danish it entrepreneurs who initially worked from an office at the danish technical university . they managed to raise us 320 000 for prototype development of their first programmable 10gbe accelerator . christophersen and j rgensen had identified a problem with the unprecedented growth of data and their idea was that since internet traffic roughly doubles every year the hardware itself could not keep up with the rate of data growth . 5 they also saw and understood the need for monitoring the performance of a network in order to enable the optimization of it and its applications . napatech which is itself a combination of the words napa valley and technology was growing rapidly in 2003 and by august the company had five employees . by the end of 2003 the company announced the industry s first 10g programmable ethernet accelerator based on the virtex ii pro fpga . soon after the company set out to conquer silicon valley and established their first office in mt. view ca . acquisitions edit in february 2006 the company agreed to buy the ip and business assets from xyratex 6 a move which helped raise the profile of napatech vis vis programmable network accelerators . napatech successfully integrated the ethernet adapter business from xyratex subsequently generating us 4 million in revenue while an additional us 5 million in new capital was raised from northzone and ferd venture . products edit napatech s product portfolio of network accelerators span speeds ranging from 1gbit s up to 100gbit s of speed with 1 2 or 4 port variants . its first product was an accelerator launched in december 2003 which supported 10gbit s network speeds . up until the first quarter of 2014 the company has produced approximately 40 different models of accelerators . some of the most important features being the capture of all network data at full line rate and guaranteed delivery of data with zero packet loss . 7 napatech s accelerators allow for off loading of i o as well as cpu intensive functions of network tasks in a similar way that pc video cards or graphics accelerators do with graphics calculations . napatech s line up of accelerators include nt100e3 1 ptp 1 port 100g nt40e3 4 ptp 4 port 10g nt40e2 1 1 port 40g nt20e2 ptp 2 port 10g nt4e2 4 ptp 4 port 1g nt4e2 4t bp 4 port 1g nt4e nebs 4 port 1g nt20e nebs 2 port 10g nt4e std 4 port 1g discontinued accelerators edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . june 2014 partners edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . june 2014 locations edit napatech is headquartered in the suburb of s borg located in the north of copenhagen denmark with sales offices in the united states s o paulo brazil tokyo japan and seoul south korea . the united states subsidiary has offices located in andover ma mountain view ca and columbia md. articles edit napatech featured in new heavy reading dpi report napatech network adapters provide real time insight into mobile nets napatech med solid fortjeneste article in norwegian napatech launches 40gbps adapter website edit napatech website references edit npulse blog references edit bae jh june 4 2013 . napatech capitalizes on telcos quest for lucrative revenue stream with big data analysis tool . iters news . retrieved 11 june 2014 . robinson daniel 18 may 2009 . napatech gives 10gbit boost to network appliances . v3.co.uk . retrieved 11 june 2014 . no author no author . key milestone in napatech s history . napatech . napatech . retrieved 11 june 2014 . napatech http www.napatech.com about profile key milestones . retrieved 10 june 2014 . missing or empty title help no author . napatech s key milestones . napatech . retrieved 11 june 2014 . napatech acquires xyratex s network business . ee times . retrieved 11 june 2014 . robinson daniel . tech editor . v3.co.uk logo all the latest uk technology news reviews and analysis . v3 . retrieved 11 june 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title napatech & oldid 727811543 categories electronics companies of denmarkcompanies listed on the oslo stock exchangehidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles needing additional references from june 2014all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from november 2011all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles to be expanded from june 2014all articles to be expandedarticles with empty sections from june 2014all articles with empty sectionsarticles using small message boxes navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history 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