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Tempered Networks is a U.S. based company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Jeffrey S. Hussey was named President and CEO when the company was founded in October 2014. Hussey was the founder of F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), which was added to the S&P 500 in 2010. To date, Tempered Networks has raised $39M  of angel and institutional venture financing, with primary participation by Ignition Partners, Rally Capital, and IDG Ventures (IDG Ventures is now RIDGE Ventures). The company’s board of directors includes Jeffrey S. Hussey, Stuart Bailey (founder of Infoblox), Erik Swan (co-founder of Splunk), John Connors (Managing Partner at Ignition), and Dennis Weibling (Managing Director of Rally Capital).

History
Tempered Networks’ technology is based on eight years of research and development at The Boeing Company when the airplane manufacturer needed to transform its 777 aircraft manufacturing systems from fixed monolithic tooling to lean mobile robotics. The new mobile manufacturing systems required secure connectivity and segmentation over wireless communications. Security was paramount since the company’s intellectual property is a high value target for hackers. The company solved its connectivity challenges by developing a secure networking solution that leveraged the Host Identity Protocol.

Technology
The HIP-based technology was successfully deployed in Boeing’s manufacturing facility, but maintaining and enhancing networking technology was not the company’s core competency. As such, in 2012 Boeing allowed the developers to commercialize the solution by spinning up a new company.

Tempered Networks is the first company to deliver a commercially available networking platform based on HIP. Its solution, Identity Defined Networking (IDN), provides a unified, common architecture for secure networking across the enterprise. The IDN design goal is making it simple to connect and segment networks by creating encrypted zero trust overlays with little to no modification to the underlay network or security infrastructure. Tempered Networks sells its product and services worldwide, with customers in a broad array of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, energy, financial services, government agencies, hospitality and gaming, and higher education.