| Market Capitalization (Millions $) |
99 |
| Shares
Outstanding (Millions) |
7 |
| Employees |
224 |
| Revenues (TTM) (Millions $) |
124 |
| Net Income (TTM) (Millions $) |
-26 |
| Cash Flow (TTM) (Millions $) |
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| Capital Exp. (TTM) (Millions $) |
2 |
Silicom Ltd
We are an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Telco and Mobile Deployments Infrastructure, Cloud and Data Center environments, our solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of compute and networking nodes within the network, including the Edge (Distributed Units) and core network (Central Unit) within the mobile infrastructure as well as the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out mobile and cloud infrastructures.
Our products are comprised of:
Server network interface cards (Server Adapters) - These adapters are used mostly in networking appliances which are used both in the Cloud (including public cloud and On Premise cloud) and in the Edge.
Smart Cards - Intelligent and/or programmable cards, with features such as encryption, Time Synchronization, acceleration, data compression, redirection and switching, packet processing, time stamping, packet capture solutions, ultra-low latency solutions, and other offloading features. These products are used mostly inside servers which are a part of Cloud and Enterprise Data centers or inside Distributed Units and Central Units which are a part of mobile infrastructures.
Smart Platforms - Customer-Premises Equipment, including virtualized Customer-Premises Equipment (vCPE) and universal Customer-Premises Equipment (uCPE) (together, "CPE"), Edge devices for SD-WAN and NFV deployments and Distributed Units (which may or may not include some of the above-mentioned Smart Cards) for the 5G mobile infrastructure market.
Server Adapters
We have developed a line of products for the server networking industry, which facilitates interaction between servers and switches, allowing them to communicate with each other through a larger number of ports and with higher performance than their original manufacturer designed capabilities. Our designs have resulted in powerful products that allow server-based systems to fully exploit the high speed potential of 1/10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet. The products have either one, two, four, six, or eight ports, which plug into servers which need to have such capabilities. Some of these products include bypass functionality which allows continuation of traffic even when the server carrying the card is failing.
Smart Cards
Our Smart Card products include smart server adapters such as: (a) redirector and switching cards, with and without x86 CPU (b) encryption and data compression hardware acceleration cards, (c) FEC (Forward Error Correction) acceleration and offloading cards, (d) Time Synchronization cards, and (e) FPGA based cards.
Our redirector and switching cards improve performance by: (a) enabling switching fabric on a network interface card ("NIC") while (in some cases) providing separate data path and management path for the switching fabric and sometimes eliminating the need for a Top Of Rack switch within the Cloud, (b) enabling traffic filtering in order to reduce the amount of traffic received by the server, limiting it to only essential traffic for the server CPU, and consequently improving server performance, (c) load-balancing between external servers and/or CPUs and/or CPU cores increasing the efficiency of the server, and (d) offloading some of the CPU tasks to the CPU and/or the switch on the NIC.
Our product line of high-performance encryption cards is designed to improve the throughput of servers with respect to which the traffic into and from them requires encryption or decryption. The products improve the performance of such servers by independently executing encryption tasks, thereby accelerating the encryption process and freeing the CPUs of such servers for other activities. This product line can off-load not only encryption functionality, but compression functionality as well. The market need for compression off-load was previously limited to some content delivery and WAN optimization networking applications; however, such compression off-load is now becoming increasingly important in the storage market especially within the Big-Data area, which is the market sector that is the primary target of this functionality.
Our FEC cards are the result of our cooperation with Intel. Intel used its intellectual property, or IP, for FEC within an eASIC process resulting in a fast time to market for ASIC, for which we built the first card. The purpose of the card is to offload some of those tasks that are supposed to be carried out by the CPU of the Distributed Unit within 4G/5G mobile deployments, in order to allow for better performance. Such performance is more necessary in the 5G space, due to the higher bandwidth, and additional calculations and processing that need to occur at the edge, while at the same time more Radio Units are required to be attached to each DU. Therefore, it is essential to offload the FEC task from the main CPU onto a card. We believe that our FEC acceleration cards provides such offload for the best performance to price ratio.
Our Time Synchronization cards provide a solution for the 4G/5G deployment time synchronization requirements. In 4G, when the quantity of edge compute units was relatively small and most of the computation was done in the core or back haul, the solution for time synchronization was based on external switching units which included the time synchronization mechanisms. Such solutions were very expensive. In 5G, where both the quantity of Distributed Units is increasing and the requirements for time synchronization are becoming more complex, there is a need for a different solution and our solution incorporates the full features required for time synchronization on a card which is also a NIC. The card integrates NIC technologies with time synchronization technologies, while the software handling the entire process is ported to run on the host DU processor and as such we believe, provides the best performance to price ratio. We have built a number of variants of our Time Synchronization cards, which address various numbers of ports (up to 12) as well as various speeds.
Our FPGA based cards are divided between two families of cards, based on the world's largest providers of such FPGA components: Xilinx (recently acquired by AMD) and Intel (which acquired Altera a few years ago). Our Xilinx based cards are sold mostly in the Packet Capturing market and towards the High Frequency Trading market, or HFT market. For the Packet Capture market, we sell cards which include our IP for Packet Capturing. For the HFT market we sell mostly 'naked' cards which do not include any software code other than the code which is required by our customers in order to add their own code to the cards. For some of our Xilinx based cards, we provide a framework which we call Packet Mover. Such framework allows the customer to add to the FPGA its own application, while the various interfaces are already a part of the framework, providing optimized solutions for low latency, throughput and speed. Our Intel based FPGA cards are a result of a close relationship with Intel over the past 3 years, during which we have engaged in co-development and co-marketing activities with Intel which has significantly contributed to our market penetration. As a result of such cooperation, we now have a variety of Intel based FPGA Smart Cards addressing mostly the mobile infrastructure market and the cloud. Such cards include a variety of mechanisms making them suitable for these markets, beginning with Inline Standard NIC on top of the FPGA facilitating immediate integration with virtual operating systems, FEC and Compression offloading, time synchronization, 5G DU shells, and UPF (User Plan Functionality) shell.
Company Address: 14 Atir Yeda Street Kfar Sava 4464323
Company Phone Number: 9-764-4555 Stock Exchange / Ticker: NASDAQ SILC
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