NoviFlow, a start-up based in Montreal, announced $9 million in Series A funding for its programmable, high-performance SDN forwarding plane solutions.
The company’s NoviSwitch is an OpenFlow v1.3/1.4 switching solution boasting up to 240 Gbps of wire-speed performance, 1 million flow entries and over 12000 flowmods/sec. It is capable of wire speed packet payload (L2-L7) matching and flow handling and is powered by EZchip’s NP-5 NPU. NoviFlow also offers its OpenFlow v1.3/1.4 switching software for use in other embedded solutions.
The funding round was led by Fonds de solidarité FTQ and joined by W3 Investissement and Somel Investments Inc., with participation from previous investors and directors of NoviFlow Inc.
According to NoviFlow Inc. president and CEO Dominique Jodoin: “With this financing, we are well positioned to extend the reach of our SDN hardware and software offering beyond our existing client base in North America, Asia, and Europe.”
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- NoviFlow was founded in March 2012 as a spin out of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
