Bivio Networks

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Founded in 2000, Bivio Networks is a leading supplier of next generation packet handling platforms and sells its multi-gigabit network appliances to network infrastructure providers in an OEM business model. Bivio’s products are unique in their ability to combine fully programmable deep-packet processing with deterministic multi-gigabit network throughput for any network service, and thus represent an optimal hardware platform for a new generation of software-based network applications that Bivio’s partners are bringing to market.The most innovative and fastest growing network applications in the areas of security, VoIP (voice over IP), multimedia, wireless and IPv6 are increasingly being implemented as software applications running on “network appliance” hardware, indicating a fundamental change in the way network services are implemented. But these emerging software-based packet handling applications also demand new requirements from the networking platforms used to implement them. Chief among these new challenges is the demand for multi-dimensional scaling capabilities, led by increasing deep packet inspection, network bandwidth and application agility requirements. Existing hardware has focused on scaling in a single dimension: For example, networking technology has focused on bandwidth scaling, while server technology has focused on computational scaling. The result has been an increasing gap between the demands of packet handling applications and the capabilities of the existing platforms to satisfy them. In essence, the existing “appliance” platforms have become a network bottleneck in high-speed networks. As 1GE and 10GE establish themselves as the new connectivity standard in the networking infrastructure, these bottlenecks will only increase unless a new architectural approach emerges which is capable of reconciling what traditionally have constituted mutually exclusive requirements in networking: performance and flexibility.The Bivio unique architectural approach to building a network appliance delivers on the requirement for multi-dimensional scaling in future networking infrastructure, making highly adaptable, high performance networks a reality. The system delivers any networking service with unmatched flexibility and scalability, vastly outperforming other architectural alternatives. Any Linux network application can be easily ported onto the Bivio architecture and accelerated to run at multi-gigabit speeds. The programmable nature of the entire networking and application plane results in the system's ability to adapt to the ever changing nature of the network infrastructure –new applications, changing protocols- as well as the platforms ability to deliver on the long-standing promise of service convergence.

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