Napatech

Napatech is a public company based in Denmark that develops and manufactures high-speed network accelerators specifically designed for real-time network monitoring and analysis applications. Napatech, which is itself a combination of the words ‘Napa Valley’ and ‘Technology’, was growing rapidly in 2003, and by August the company had 5 employees. By the end of 2003, the company announced the industry’s first 10G programmable Ethernet accelerator based on the Virtex-II Pro FPGA. Soon after, the company set out to conquer Silicon Valley and established its first office in Mountain View, California.