Industry Computer Software Website Packet Design Type of business Private | Key people Management listing Founded 2003 | |
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, United States Founders Judith L. Estrin, William N. Carrico, Jr. Profiles | ||
Packet Design is an Austin, Texas-based network performance management software company credited with pioneering Route Analytics technology. This network monitoring technology analyzes routing protocols and structures in meshed IP networks by participating as a peer in the network to passively “listen” to Layer 3 routing protocol exchanges between routers for the purpose of network discovery, mapping, real-time monitoring and routing diagnostics.
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The company maintains offices in San Jose, CA, Austin, TX, Dubai, UAE, and Beijing, CN.
History
Packet Design, Inc. was co-founded in 2003, by Judy Estrin and Bill Carrico, notable network computing executives who have started seven companies together during their careers. Estrin served as CTO of Cisco Systems 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 CEO, Joel Trammell, in March 2013. With the acquisition, Packet Design, Inc. became Packet Design, LLC and Scott Sherwood was named as the new CEO.
Partnerships
Among the organization's partnerships, the most notable is with Hewlett Packard, who offers a licensed version of Packet Design’s products integrated alongside their HP Network Node Manager called HP Route Analytics Management Software.