In yoga, "flow" refers to a sequence of poses and positions. In the tech world, "flows" are individual conversations or packets of data that go through networks.
Netronome has raised $19 million in its fifth round of funding to accelerate research and development for its flow processing technology.
Flow processing keeps traffic through a network running smoothly. With increasing numbers of users and activity, many enterprise companies need greater support for their applications. Flow processing means that an application can keep an active state on every conversation from start to finish, as opposed to packet-by-packet processing.
Networking equipment manufacturers use Netronome's chips in communications products that require deep packet inspection, flow analysis, content processing, virtualization, and security. Its solutions serve companies in cybersecurity, network analytics, software-defined networking, and cloud data center server virtualization.
This investment will support strong demand for Netronome's latest solution, NFP-6xxx, which it introduced in June. The product includes 96 packet processing cores and 120 multithreaded flow processing cores as well as 200 Gbps of packet processing, enabling 384 million packets and 307 billion instructions per second. It also provides for over 30MB of on-chip storage and 50 Gbps security processing.
Sourcefire, Intel Capital, DFJ Esprit, and The Raptor Group participated in this round.