Description
Big Switch Networks is a cloud and data center networking company. The company was founded by Kyle Forster and Guido Appenzeller in 2010 and has roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software defined networking (SDN). Douglas Murray, a former Juniper Networks and Sun Microsystems executive, joined the company as CEO in 2013 as the company went through a significant pivot following VMware's acquisition of Nicira.
Investors in the company include: Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, SilverLake, MSD Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Intel Capital. As of July 2017, the company has raised over $120M in funding.
In 2013 the company released its first commercial product, Big Monitoring Fabric and in 2014 the company released Big Cloud Fabric. Customers include: Verizon, Intuit, Clemson, U2 Cloud.
Big Switch is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Switch_Networks
