NANO Corp. is developing network supervision technology for the data centers of Cloud providers and telecommunications operators. This start-up has just completed a fundraising round of 1.6 million euros, led by Elaia Partners and supported by Cartisa, NANO Corp.'s historic business angel.

The reality of today's hyperscale networks relies on machines that replicate other machines with limited human supervision. This results in a significant loss of understanding of the network and a worsening of the response time to incidents. NANO Corp. ensures full visibility of network traffic from the core to the edge, restoring supervision capabilities to network operators.

Lack of Visibility

To keep up with the increase in bandwidth and the diversification of uses, technological advancements have led data centers to implement flow volumes that exceed their traffic supervision and management capabilities.

This regularly results in numerous security flaws and a loss of network efficiency in an environment where the speed and volume of data traditionally make them almost impossible to bridge. More than half of the companies that have suffered an incident report that it cost them more than $100,000, and some more than $100 million.

It becomes essential to detect network anomalies, improve their performance, stability, and resilience: NANO CORP.'s supervision solutions meet this expectation.

Deeper, Faster, Leaner

This is the premise around which NANO CORP.'s protocol analysis engine was designed, capable of processing layers 2 to 7 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, tunneling, and telecommunication protocols over IP (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G). It is also capable of continuously analyzing data exceeding 100 Gbits/s and operating on standard hardware.

It is the only one in the market to achieve such performance:

Spirent Communications, the world's leading provider of test solutions and associated service Assurance, evaluated the performance of NANO CORP.'s protocol analysis system. "We conducted several tests to evaluate performance and stress the system by covering network layers L2 to L7 with 100 Gbit/s connectivity," said Bruno Denjean, Spirent's Sales Director for the Southern EMEA Region. "The goal was to validate that the performance met the strict criteria of no lost packets, transaction errors, or protocol detection errors, and NANO CORP.'s protocol analysis system passed all these tests with flying colors."

The future of network infrastructures, with speeds reaching 200Gbit/s, 400Gbit/s, or more, is a significant challenge: the NANO CORP. engine was designed to meet it.

Marc Rougier, partner at Elaia, adds: "The technology developed by the team of experts at Nano corp is simply astounding. It has the potential to become a key element in the performance and security of networks in today's rapidly accelerating cloud infrastructure world."

A $200 Billion Market

The data center market for cloud providers and telecommunications companies is expected to exceed $200 billion by 2025. To maintain their profitability, data centers rely on virtualization, software-defined everything, from virtual networks to virtual machines, including containers. However, the lack of visibility in such demanding environments is a source of problems, a brake on their growth, and impacts their relationships with their clients.

NANO CORP.'s initial solutions meet the most pressing needs of this market. They revolve around an intelligent network recorder working at depths and speeds never reached before and a network visibility dashboard and alert system.