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History

2024: Renamed TrafficSoft

In 2024, the company rebranded, changing the brand name to TrafficSoft. Representatives of the company reported this to TAdviser on May 15, 2024. The legal entity and the company's team remained the same.

2021

Raising $1.4 million in investments

Startup NFWare, a developer ON for virtualizations network functions, on January 14, 2021 announced TAdviser an increase of $1.4 million from an international group of investors, including Softline Venture Partners Plug and Play Ventures and business angels from Google Research. Existing investors -,, and - Sistema VC Almaz Capital Maxfield Capital backed the round.

Russian network virtualization startup NFWare raised $1.4 million in investments

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The company will direct the raised funds to expand the product line for processing network traffic. The company plans to present products on the market in 2021.

NFWare develops virtual networking solutions for telecom operators and Internet companies. They are able to cope with a large amount of traffic, while working on standard servers, including in virtual or cloud environments. NFWare products can scale quickly in response to the growth of user requests and, according to developers, require up to 10 times less hardware resources than products from market leaders Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson.

Virtual CGNAT's flagship solution can handle large volumes of traffic - up to 240 Gbps. on a single server. The solution is based on the patented NFWare MultiCore Network Stack technology, which allows you to achieve high traffic processing speed on standard servers.

Global traffic in the mobile segment alone grew by 50% in 2020, which provoked interest in NFWare technology around the world. Quickly scale the network capacity and be able to work with a large amount of traffic has become a necessary requirement for the vendor. Our main product solves the problem of IPv4 addresses, while its fundamental technology can be used for other tasks. In other products, we will expand the use cases of our technology for high-performance traffic processing, noted Alexander Britkin, co-founder and CEO of NFWare.

The transition to clouds, the imminent 5G revolution, digital transformation at the level of entire states impose new requirements related to the flexibility and performance of communication networks. NFWare solutions form the technological basis for a decent response to these challenges. We are inspired by the prospect of supporting a company with Russian roots, which has all the capabilities to change approaches to building networks at the global level, says Elena Volotovskaya, head of the Softline Venture Partners fund.

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NFWare is a solution for the critical infrastructure of telecom operators, the transition to which requires a lot of trust. The company has already shown that it is worthy of this trust, working with large carriers in EMEA countries, and continuing to enter into contracts with long-term plans for virtualization of entire countries. The presence of investors and additional rounds also add confidence to customers in the long-term cooperation. We are excited to support a strong team and technology along the way, noted Alexander Galitsky, Almaz Capital.

Among the company's customers are two out of ten international mobile operators, telecom operators in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. In Russia, the company's clients for January 2021 are Tinkoff Mobile and Mail.Ru Group.

Offices

As of January 2021, the company's offices are located in Moscow and California, USA.

2017

Investments of $2 million from AFK Sistema and a number of venture capital funds

The venture capital fund of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov - Sistema Venture Capital - in March 2017 announced that it had invested in NFWare, acting as this round of financing by a lead investor. The company also invested venture capital funds with Russian roots Almaz Capital, Maxfield Capital and one of the world's largest telecom operators Telefonica. The investment consultant of the round was the Skolkovo Technopark, whose resident is NFWare.

The total investment amounted to $2 million. The volume of investments from each investor and the shares acquired at the round were not disclosed.

Following Europe, NFWare plans to master the US market

The funds received NFWare intends to spend on its development and expansion of its presence in Europe, as well as entering the US market.

NFWare technologies are becoming more and more popular, because it is virtualization that will be the basis for building the next generation network infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things. Currently, all the largest telecom operators include NFV in their network development strategies. Therefore, we see our task as strengthening the international presence in Europe and the United States, - Alexander Britkin, founder and CEO of NFWare.

Alexey Katkov, President of Sistema Venture Capital, notes that the volume of traffic in the world is growing exponentially, and telecom operators, Internet companies, data centers have to constantly invest in increasing the capacity of their network infrastructure. NFWare has offered the market a technologically elegant and efficient solution that can significantly reduce the costs of companies and at the same time increase the speed of traffic processing, he says.

According to the research company Analysys Mason Group, cited by Sistema Venture Capital, at the end of 2016, the market for solutions for virtualization of network infrastructure (NFV) amounted to $2.4 billion. By 2023, it could reach $29 billion.

About NFWare

NFWare is a Russian startup founded in 2014 on the basis of the Center for Applied Research of Computer Networks. According to March 2017, the company is developing network software based on NFV (virtualization of network functions) and SDN (software-defined networks) technologies, which allow partially transferring network infrastructure functions to a virtual environment.

NFWare has created a solution that moves the network infrastructure of telecommunications companies to the cloud and allows you to run various operator services on the same hardware set. The company says its decisions challenge major international vendors such as Cisco and Huawei.

NFWare network products are intended for operators data centers and Internet companies. They are supplied to both Russian and foreign customers. In the first two years since its founding, NFWare customers have become, and Telefonica Mail.Ru Group several European operators.

2015

NFWare raised $500,000

In October 2015, NFWare announced that it had raised $500,000 in seed investments. The investment was made by a group of investors led by Maxfield Capital. Almaz Capital Partners and Spanish telecoms company Telefonica took part in the round.

NFWare Presentation (2015)

Logo in 2015

Investment NFWare plans to spend on strengthening sales in the European market of telecom operators through the opening of an operating office in Germany.

In 2016, we plan to focus on the European market, earn a reputation there, after which, in 2017, we will enter the international market, "said Alexander Britkin, CEO and co-founder of NFWare.

Earlier, NFWare received a grant from Skolkovo for 5 million rubles.

According to Analysis Mason, global sales of virtualized solutions for telecom operators in 2016 will reach $2.4 billion, and by 2023 $29 billion. The potential of these services is recognized by telecommunications companies. Participation in the Telefonica round confirms this interest.

Pilot projects with foreign operators

In 2015, NFWare conducted several successful pilot projects, including commercial ones, with European and Japanese telecom operators. In early October 2015, NFWare signed a contract with the Spanish operator Futura Telecom to implement the Virtual Carrier Grade NAT solution, which fixes the problem of lack of IP addresses.

2014: Founding of the Company

NFWare was founded in 2014 by Alexander Britkin, Igor Ryzhov, Pavel Ivashchenko and Ruslan Smelyansky

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