The technology that connects your computer to the Internet is about to change forever.
Wexford-based Accipiter Systems, Inc., a leading developer of innovative data networking solutions and an Innovation Works company, is developing a prototype for an exceedingly energy efficient network implementation that will rethink the original assumptions about a major connection in our lives—our link to the Internet.
The company recently received $1 million from the U.S. Army to develop the technology, the latest, leanest, lightest solution that will consume less energy and cost less. And since the U.S. Army and DARPA usually get what they ask for—recall these are the people who brought us the Internet in the first place and GPS in the second place—we might want to pay attention.
“We’re starting with a new paradigm and vision for how to build this equipment,” says Dan Flynn, president and co-founder, formerly of FORE Systems, who started the company in 2002. “As you can well imagine, when they deploy to a conflict they have to physically move the equipment there. We’re focusing on the problems the Army is experiencing and asking, can we not connect computers together in a far more efficient way?”
Accipiter hopes to have a prototype developed by next year. While careful not to disclose the sensitive details, Flynn says that large data centers around the world as well as end customers like ourselves will benefit from the echnology to come.
Accipiter, which employs 8 full-time employees and a handful of part-timers, forsees major hiring in the future as the company makes a significant impact in the computer networking industry.
“The talent here is some of the best in the world,” Flynn adds. “We have all that’s necessary here to create a Silicon Valley. That’s the opportunity we see emerging in Pittsburgh.”
Writer: Debra Smit
Source: Dan Flynn, Accipter Systems, Inc.
Image courtesy Accipiter Systems