Background & History
The company was founded in 2001 after the success of the DAG project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. The first cards designed at the University were designed to measure latency in ATM networks and had the following design aims:
- Accurate and high resolution time measurement, locally or globally synchronised (<1 microsecond)
- Wide range of protocols and network speeds
- Flexible, programmable design
- Low cost, open architecture
- Transmit capability for testing
Endace became the first New Zealand company to list on London's Alternative Investment Market AIM (EPIC: EDA) when it floated in mid-June 2005 a move which was not without controversy. Poor share price performance in the early years and a seeming failure to attract a broad enough shareholder base lent weight to the criticism that Endace should have focused initially on developing its local profile (via NZX) rather than pushing for overseas investment (via London AIM).
Beginning in 2006 Endace began the transition from component manufacturer to appliance manufacturer to fully fledged managed infrastructure provider. As a manufacturer of complete solutions Endace consumes its own DAG cards. Endace now sells complete network visibility fabrics, based on its range of Intelligent network recorders to large corporations and government agencies in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand. Endace intelligent network recorders scale from 1 Mbps to 100 Gbps and help organizations respond and get to the root cause of network problems by allowing engineers to go back in time and see exactly what happened (at packet level) at the time that an alarm was generated or a problem was reported. Endace intelligent recording fabrics are bought by both network operations and network security teams.
Endace's marketing headquarters is in Sunnyvale, California. R&D is in Auckland, New Zealand.
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