About Bivio Networks
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The Goal: Uncompromising Performance, Unmatched Flexibility
Founded in 2000, Bivio Networks is the leading provider of deep packet processing network appliance platforms, having the first true multi-gigabit networking platforms with a standard Linux-based execution environment. The Bivio 7000 Series, Bivio 6500 and Bivio 2000 platforms addresses the unique demands that have been created by emerging network applications that increasingly combine deep-packet processing with high-speed networking throughput. The performance and flexibility of Bivio’s platforms allows for a wide range of applications to coexist, providing customers with a development platform that can grow and adapt with successive product generations. In 2006, the Bivio 2000 platform was awarded the “Most Innovative Hardware Solution” from Linux Journal, recognizing the Bivio 2000 as the most innovative hardware solution available to Linux application developers, network equipment manufacturers, and systems integrators.
Network Infrastructure Is Now A Bottleneck
Current and emerging deep packet processing applications, in areas such as security, VoIP, traffic management, and network monitoring and analysis, are causing a paradigm shift in the role of networking from a connectivity medium to a policy engine. With policy inherently software-defined, we have now evolved from a hardware-centric network to a policy-centric software-driven network. This shift has placed dramatic new demands on the networking infrastructure as an increasingly complex software-defined policy layer conflicts with an increasingly fast hardware-defined connectivity layer.
The result has been an increasing gap between the demands of deep packet processing applications and the capabilities of the existing infrastructure hardware. In essence, the existing network infrastructure hardware has become a bottleneck in high-speed communications. With the proliferation of high-speed networking technologies and increased demand for policy applications, these bottlenecks will only increase unless a new approach is developed.
Who’s Affected?
The stakeholders in the solution to this problem span the entire networking industry: Independent software vendors currently relying on poorly-performing and ultimately limited commodity platforms, network equipment manufacturers looking to augment their existing product portfolios, and custom application developers at service providers or federal agencies looking for platforms on which to develop their custom applications as well as leverage commercially available applications. For these stakeholders, the combined requirements of both hardware and software expertise have led to much more complex products, directly resulting in increased cost, time-to-market and risk in a world where network infrastructure providers are looking to reduce R&D expense, shorten time-to-market, and rapidly adapt to new threats, protocols and networking functions.
How Bivio Solves The Network Infrastructure Problem
Bivio’s network appliance platforms are high-performance, programmable network devices that combine a groundbreaking scalable hardware architecture with the BiviOS™ software platform that includes a standard Linux-based execution environment and a comprehensive set of networking features. By fusing flexible computing and high-speed networking in a family of unique network appliance platforms, Bivio is changing the way networking products are built. Using Bivio network appliance platforms, companies developing and deploying emerging deep packet processing applications achieve dramatic increases in performance while significantly reducing their product development costs and time-to-market. This makes Bivio network appliance platforms ideal for a wide range of emerging network infrastructure solutions, such as security, traffic management, application acceleration, VoIP, and mobility applications.
Bivio network appliance platforms are compact (2U rack-mountable) devices delivering up to 10 Gigabits of performance throughput. Network processing is handled by a programmable and configurable Network Processing Card while application processing is handled by a high-CPU density Application Processor Card. Bivio’s unique scaling and clustering technology enables scaling of networking, computational and application resources, enabling Bivio to deliver on the promise of true wire-speed for any service for any packet size.
Furthermore, Bivio’s standard Linux execution environment enables partners to rapidly prototype and commercially develop their application solutions. Augmenting the standard environment, BiviOS™ and a full suite of networking features provides developers with the ability to further optimize the hardware-software interaction.
In summary, Bivio’s network appliance platforms enable customers to achieve disruptive improvements in deep packet processing performance, scaling, reliability and deterministic traffic management capabilities that network equipment manufacturers, independent software developers, service providers, enterprises, and federal agencies demand in their emerging networking infrastructure. Customers are now enabled to rapidly develop innovative, market-leading networking solutions, speeding time-to-market and time-to-solution with minimal integration effort.
Markets and Applications That Benefit From Bivio Solutions
Network equipment manufacturers, independent software providers, service providers, system integrators, and several government agencies invest extensively in the development and delivery of network application software and deploy their solutions on Bivio’s next generation network appliance platforms.
The most innovative and fastest growing network applications particularly in the areas of security, traffic management, network monitoring and analysis, secure VoIP, and mobility are increasingly being implemented as policy-centric software applications running on high performance “network appliance” platforms. Best-in-class network appliance platforms must execute deep packet processing of policy-centric applications at multi-gigabit wire rates with demonstrated scalability and application flexibility. Furthermore, developing to a standard Linux-based execution environment, reducing application integration costs and effort is critically important to our NEM, ISV, service providers, system integrators, and several government customers.
Bivio’s customers greatly benefit from the cost, performance and time-to-market benefits that result from developing and deploying their applications on Bivio’s industry leading platforms. Developing to Bivio’s network appliance platforms, our customers achieve disruptive improvements in deep packet processing performance, system cost, reliability, scalability and deterministic traffic management capabilities of their commercial and custom developed solutions.
Ideal Applications for Bivio Platforms include:
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