Packet Design is an Austin, Texas-based network performance management software company credited with pioneering

route analytics Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitorin ...

technology. This

network monitoring Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitorin ...

technology analyzes

routing protocol A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select routes between nodes on a computer network. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet; data packets ...

s and structures in meshed IP networks by participating as a peer in the network to passively “listen” to

Layer 3 In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the network layer is layer 3. The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers. Functions The network layer provides the means of transfe ...

routing protocol exchanges between routers for the purpose of network discovery, mapping, real-time monitoring and routing diagnostics. The company maintains offices in San Jose, CA, Austin, TX, Dubai, UAE, and Pune, India. In June 2018,

Ciena Ciena Corporation is an American telecommunications networking equipment and software services supplier based in Hanover, Maryland. The company has been described by ''The Baltimore Sun'' as the "world's biggest player in optical connectivity." T ...

announced it would acquire Packet Design LLC and the transaction closed July 2, 2018.

History

Packet Design, Inc. was co-founded in 2003, by

Judy Estrin Judith "Judy" L. Estrin (born 1954/1955) is an American entrepreneur, business executive, and philanthropist. Estrin worked with Vinton Cerf on the Transmission Control Protocol project at Stanford University in the 1970s. Estrin is an entrepreneu ...

and Bill Carrico, network computing executives who have started seven companies together during their careers. Estrin served as chief technology officer of

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...

from 1998 to 2000, immediately prior to founding the company. Packet Design was acquired by Lone Rock Technology Group, the private equity firm of former

NetQoS NetQoS, which sells network performance management software and services, was co-founded by Joel Trammell in 1999 and acquired by CA Technologies in 2009. The company's name refers to ''Network Quality of Service''. Their ''ReportAnalyzer'' provid ...

CEO,

Joel Trammell Joel Trammell is an American businessman and entrepreneur. Trammell works in CEO education and software. Trammell is the former CEO of Black Box Network Services, and the founder and chairman of Khorus Software, which equips CEOs with strategy- ...

, in March 2013. With the acquisition, Packet Design, Inc. became Packet Design, LLC and Scott Sherwood was named as CEO. For a number of years,

Hewlett Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

offered OEM-licensed versions of Packet Design’s products integrated alongside their HP Network Node Manager called HP Route Analytics Management Software (RAMS). Packet Design terminated the agreement and RAMS customers now receive support from Packet Design.

References

{{reflist

External links

Packet Design's Website
Networking software companies Networking hardware companies Companies based in Santa Clara, California 2003 establishments in California