IP Infusion is a leading provider of intelligent network software solutions for enhanced IP services. IP Infusion's advanced control plane software and expert professional services enables equipment vendors, service providers, and telecommunications and enterprise companies to rapidly build and provision a broad range of value-added IP services around our core routing and switching software technology. Incorporated in Delaware in October 1999 with a vision of delivering portable, platform-independent network software solutions for Internet equipment and devices, IP Infusion is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and is a wholly owned, independently operated subsidiary of ACCESS CO., LTD.

IP Infusion is empowering communications equipment manufacturers and service providers to rapidly deliver both next generation IP applications, by providing a set of routing and switching solutions that integrate with embedded operating systems and network processors, and the traffic engineering and quality of service features that are required. These new communications applications include Carrier Ethernet equipment, high-performance edge routing, voice over IP (VoIP), virtual private networking (VPN), storage area networking (SAN), content delivery and management, wireless and mobile networking, security, performance and conformance testers, photonic networking, home networking, and new enterprise network solutions.

Company History

IP Infusion's technology had its beginnings in 1995 when the company's co-founder and CTO Kunihiro Ishiguro was working at a large Japanese ISP (a joint venture between Marubeni and British Telecom) that was building Japan's Internet backbone using standard high-speed routers. During this time, Ishiguro decided to develop a platform-independent BGP route reflector that could easily be ported to multiple platforms.

In 1996, Ishiguro joined co-founder Yoshinari Yoshikawa at Digital Magic Labs in Japan with the intention of developing platform-independent software for OSPF, BGP, and RIP for both IPv4 and IPv6. After building a large community of users of the software, Ishiguro and Yoshikawa recognized the tremendous potential this technology had for use in the market and decided to create a company. With help from initial investments from Bill Tai and T. Peter Thomas of IVP, as well as Michio Fujimura of IT-Farm, Yoshikawa and Ishiguro founded IP Infusion as a US company in 1999, with headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Solutions

The software initially developed by Ishiguro has blossomed into a full set of integrated IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS, and multicast routing and switching protocol modules known as the ZebOS® Advanced Platform Routing Suite and a unique Hardware Integration Framework called the ZebOS Advanced Integration Platform Suite. IP Infusion develops and markets its ZebOS family of advanced IP routing suites, which are based on a unique, modular, multi-process architecture featuring control-plane components that provide route redistribution and conversion, management services, and an OS/processor abstraction layer for routing and switching modules.

This robust, high-performance software offers IPv4/IPv6 versions of OSPF, BGP, RIP, and IS-IS routing protocols; PIM-SM for IPv4/IPv6 and DVMRP multicast protocols; MPLS, BGP-VPN, VPLS, RSVP-TE, DiffServ, CR-LDP, and Layer 2 VPN switching and signaling protocols; Spanning Tree, Rapid Spanning Tree, Multiple Spanning Tree, Bridging, VLAN, GMRP, GVRP, Link Aggregation, and Port Authentication Layer 2 protocols; virtual routing, and TCP/IP dual stack support.

To ensure the greatest possible time-to-market advantage, these leading edge software offerings are coupled with comprehensive, expert professional services. IP Infusion services engineers are available to assist customers in every phase of development, from product definition to architecture and design, coding, through validation and deployment.

• Metro and Provider Edge
• Access Routing
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switching
• Metro and Provider Edge