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Metamako is a global computer networking company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The company designs, manufactures and sells layer 1+ switching hardware, FPGA-enabled switching devices as well as network applications. It also provides IP Cores, SDKs and development modules for firms to write their own FPGA applications. Its award-winning devices are amongst the most performant low-latency switches offering data fan-out in as little as 4 nanoseconds and multiplexing in an average of 56 nanoseconds. The timestamp accuracy of its devices has been independently verified in 2017 by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®). Metamako was founded in 2013 by Dr. David Snowdon, Scott Newham and Charles Thomas and has received one round of seed funding from institutional investors. Metamako’s network devices are in use in high-frequency trading environments, stock exchanges7, brokers, banks, datacenters, telecommunications, defense & government and high-performance computing.

Contents
1.1  Layer 1 Ethernet Switches
 * 1) 1. 	Products
 * 1) 1.2.  FPGA Platforms
 * 2) 1.3  Network Applications
 * 3) 1.4  Features & Common Uses
 * 4) 2. 	Competitors
 * 5) 3. 	References
 * 6) 4. 	External Links

Products Metamako products include a range of ultra-low latency switching devices, all running its own Linux-based network operating system, MOS (Metamako Operating System). 1.1 Layer 1 Ethernet Switches Metamako’s Layer 1 Ethernet switches are available in 16, 48 and 96-port variants in 1 RU or 2 RU form factors. The deterministic devices forward bitstream-level data between ports in 4 nanoseconds (+/- 1 ns) with full signal recovery and regeneration and virtually undetectable jitter. Through its signal integrity circuitry the devices can use various SFP/SFP+ including long-range multi-mode (LRM) as well as passive and active direct-attach copper cables. The switches can gather packet statistics, provide signal quality monitoring, telemetry and diagnostics (including signal quality eye diagrams). The layer 1 network devices can also be used as remotely configurable patch panels, one to many data broadcasts, ad-hoc tapping, media conversion and link monitoring, with the same overhead as a metre of fibre. 1.2 FPGA Platforms Some of Metamako’s hardware devices include FPGA technology (Intel, Xilinx) to run high-performance applications directly on network devices. Metamako’s FPGA-enabled switches provide low-latency, 5 nanosecond layer 1 switching between network ports and 3 nanoseconds from front panel to FPGA. FPGA-enabled devices can be upgraded to include OCXO or a Rubidium clock module. ·      FPGA partners: Xilinx and Intel ·      FPGA options: Xilinx Kintex® UltraScale™, Virtex® UltraScale+™, Virtex® 7, Intel Arria® 10 ·      32, 48 or 96 SFP+ port variants ·      Up to three FPGAs in a 1 RU device ·      Various specifications for RAM, Buffer Size, Transceivers, up to 10G speed

1.3 Network Applications Metamako develops and sells software applications which run on its switching devices. · 	MetaMux performs multiplexing/aggregation in as low as 50 ns and an average of 56 nanoseconds.

· 	MetaFilter performs market data filtering with deterministic latency of 95 nanoseconds. Per port filters allow different servers/applications/clients to receive different data subsets.

· 	MetaWatch is an FPGA-application combining several components of a traditional network monitoring onto one device including tapping, tap aggregation, precise time synchronisation, nanosecond-resolution timestamping, deep buffering. Metamako’s timestamping precision of +/- 1 nanosecond has been independently verified by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®) in its STAC-TS benchmark reports.

1.4 Features & Common Uses Features such as access control, syslog, SNMP, packet stats, tcpdump, JSON RPC API, time series data, streaming telemetry are included on Metamako devices. Common uses: Telemetry Connection Monitoring Network Monitoring Failover Dynamic Patching Scalable broadcast Data fan out Media conversion Tapping Tap aggregation Timestamping Circuit breaker 2. Competitors Cisco Systems Arista Networks Juniper Networks 3. References

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4. External Links Official Website www.metamako.com