IP Fabrics
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IP Fabrics is a privately-owned, US company that designs and manufactures network surveillance products for national security, lawful interception, data retention, and cyber crime applications. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S., IP Fabrics employs between 10 and 20 employees and has over 50 customers.

History

IP Fabrics was founded in Beaverton, Oregon in 2002 by nine former RadiSys
RadiSys
RadiSys Corporation is publicly traded company that makes embedded systems and related technology, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1987 in Oregon by former employees of Intel, the company went public in 1995...

 employees, including the founder, Glen Myers. The first investors were employees and private investors, who contributed roughly $400K to fund the company’s operations until the first round of venture funding in August, 2003. Financing was led by Ignition Partners of Bellevue, Washington; Frazier Technology Venture and northwest Venture Associates, both of Seattle; and Intel Capital. Subsequent funding rounds came from the founders and members of the original venture investment team. In 2008, the company’s assets were sold to a German company, ATIS UHER,
who remains the largest shareholder.

Products

IP Fabrics has two main products: DeepProbe and DeepSweep, both network surveillance systems capable of monitoring one gigabit
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second , as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard. It came into use beginning in 1999, gradually supplanting Fast Ethernet in wired local networks where it performed...

 and ten gigabit Ethernet networks. These are typically used in surveillance applications such as:
  • IPDR
    IPDR
    In telecommunications, an IP Detail Record provides information about Internet Protocol -based service usage and other activities that can be used by Operational Support Systems and Business Support Systems...

     generation for Data retention
    Data retention
    Data retention defines the policies of persistent data and records management for meeting legal and business data archival requirements. A data retention policy weighs legal and privacy concerns against economics and need to know concerns to determine both the retention time, archival rules, data...

  • IP lawful intercept such as Title III
    USA PATRIOT Act, Title III
    The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, each containing numerous sections...

     and pen register
    Pen register
    A pen register is an electronic device that records all numbers called from a particular telephone line. The term has come to include any device or program that performs similar functions to an original pen register, including programs monitoring Internet communications.The United States statutes...

     for criminal investigations
  • IP monitoring for intelligence gathering and other national security operations
  • IP monitoring and intercept for detection and investigation of cyber crimes (online theft, Internet crimes against children, etc.)
  • IP intercept and monitoring for insider threat detection, compliance, and forensic analysis of private networks


DeepProbe is an intelligent passive full decoding probe, often used in distributed surveillance environments, which are typically large, complex networks, or networks requiring significant application-level monitoring. Examples of such networks would be nationwide surveillance solutions with probes installed at the key service providers and gateways, critical, secure government networks, or large communications service providers. DeepProbe functions as a passive monitoring system, generally under the control of a separate surveillance element such as a mediation system or a Security Information and Event Management
Security Information and Event Management
Security Information and Event Management solutions are a combination of the formerly disparate product categories of SIM and SEM...

 system.

DeepSweep is standalone surveillance system incorporating three common IP intercept functions: intercept access point, mediation, and delivery functions. DeepSweep is primarily used by US-based Internet Service Provider
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

s and Voice over IP
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...

 providers to comply with the FCC’s broadband Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton...

requirement, as well as by North American law enforcement agencies as a Internet tactical wiretap system.

IP Fabrics has key technology in the areas of deep packet inspection, deep application protocol inspection, and high-speed parallel packet processing implemented on multicore processors.
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