About IP Fabrics

IP Fabrics was founded in August 2002 with the goal of accelerating deep packet processing in IP networks.  The vision stemmed from the premise that future networks will have three demands that are often at odds with one another:

• The need for true wire-speed performance at network speeds at and above one gigabit/sec.
• The need for more intelligence to be located directly in the network in the form of real-time deep packet inspection and processing.
• The need to be quickly adaptable and extensible to new network applications, protocols, and threats.

Today, IP Fabrics is focused on using its network processor technology in network surveillance applications through its DeepSweep™ family of network surveillance systems.  DeepSweep systems leverage several of IP Fabrics’ current products including its innovative Packet Processing Language (PPL) multi core virtualization software and its network processor hardware platforms.

The IP Fabric’s DeepSweep network surveillance system is the first networking solution optimized for real-time, wire-speed, “live” network surveillance.  

The DeepSweep system provides a very powerful and configurable manner in which to inspect and act on network traffic of interest.  For example, gigabit rate traffic can be inspected at layers 2-7 of network protocols, using complex constructs such as broad protocol filters, classification databases, white/black lists, and signature databases.  Once traffic of interest has been detected, the DeepSweep provides a flexible set of actions, such as recording the traffic in a local record file, encapsulating and transmitting the packet, generating SNMP alerts, transmitting to a local surveillance module™ or one located on a remote DeepSweep, or passing to a locally-residing user application.   This power and flexibility make DeepSweep ideal for network surveillance applications such as cyber crime investigations, network abuse detection, lawful interception, and national security/intelligence/SIGINT. 

DeepSweep is currently available in a 1Gbps appliance (DeepSweep-1) and will soon be available in a 10Gbps version (DeepSweep-10). 

IP Fabrics’ innovative virtualization software and hardware platforms provide our systems with unique advantages and also enable other equipment makers to produce networking applications with better than an order of magnitude (10x) reduction in cost and time to market. The benefits of using our software technology include creating solutions that can be very quickly created, tested, and deployed, as well as ones that last longer in the market and are more easily enhanced with new features.

IP Fabrics is venture funded from Northwest Venture Associates, Intel Capital, Frazier Technology Ventures, and Ignition Partners, and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.  IP Fabrics is led by Glen Myers, who was previously the founder and CEO of RadiSys Corp. (NASDAQ:  RSYS).  Glen is joined by other executives and technologists with extensive industry experience in companies such as RadiSys, Intel, Tektronix, and IBM.