Brantley Coile is an inventor and founder of network technology companies, he worked for John Mayes as a programmer whose companies products include PIX Firewall, the first stateful-inspection firewall and

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

' first load-balancer, LocalDirector. Coile's patents include the fundamental patents on Network Address Translation (NAT). Coile earned a degree in computer science at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

. In 1994, he co-founded Network Translation, where he created the PIX Firewall appliance a new class of data communication firewalls utilizing stateful packet inspection. After leaving

in 2000, he founded Coraid, Inc. to design and develop network storage devices using the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE), an open and lightweight network storage protocol. Coile founded South Suite, Inc. in 2013 and continued to develop AoE technology. In 2015 he purchased Coraid's EtherDrive intellectual property and founded The Brantley Coile Company, a subsidiary of SouthSuite.

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