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Solarflare

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Solarflare Communications Inc. is a silicon vendor delivering Ethernet products that enable the rapid adoption of 10 Gigabit for data center and enterprise networks. The company’s 10GBASE-T PHY chips make it possible to transfer data within data centers at 10-gigabits per second over the Ethernet protocol, allowing for faster performance and better energy efficiency. Most data networking infrastructure operates at just 1 gigabit per second today.

Milestones

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• Received $32M in Unattributed funding. (12/28/08)
  Posted 4/16/09 at 9:04am
• Solarflare — Solarflare raises $44 million dollars (12/22/08)
  Posted 4/16/09 at 9:08am
• Received $26M in Unattributed funding. (6/18/08)
  Posted 6/24/08 at 2:38pm
• Solarflare — Solarflare raises $26 million in funding (6/17/08)
  Posted 9/29/08 at 12:35pm
• Solarflare — Solarflare appoints VPs (3/19/08)
  Posted 9/29/08 at 12:35pm
• Acquired Level 5 Networks. (2005)
  Posted 4/16/09 at 9:17am
• Bruce Tolley, Vice President, Marketing added.
  Posted 9/29/08 at 12:29pm
• Russell Stern, President and CEO added.
  Posted 9/29/08 at 12:29pm
• Steve Pope, Chief Technical Officer added.
  Posted 9/29/08 at 12:29pm
• Nicole Martin, Corporate Communications added.
  Posted 9/29/08 at 12:29pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: NIC Controller
Uploaded: 9/30/08

Products

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10GBASE-T PHY

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10Gigabit controller

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Traffic Analytics

Compete

Sources

1. Solarflare, Level 5 Get the Merge Urge (lightreading.com) [edit]
2. Solarflare Secures $26 Million in Private Funding (vmblog.com) [edit]
3. Solarflare raises $32 million plus debt for high-speed networking chips (venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Orange County Business Journal (ocbj.com) [edit]
5. OC Register (ocbiz.freedomblogging.com) [edit]
6. Solarflare raises $32 million plus debt for high-speed networking chips (venturebeat.com) [edit]