Hi!

Thanks everybody for setting up this list. I'm glad to have time for a

first post :-)

I'd like to introduce Teclo Networks, our new Lisp startup based in

Zurich, Switzerland. We're developing network infrastructure for

mobile broadband optimization -- helping to make 3G/4G cellular

internet genuinely competitive with fixed DSL. We're moving fast.

Teclo ("Telco with CL") has been going for about a year now and so far

we've been way too busy to come to Lisp conferences and explain what

we're doing. That's really a shame, so now I'm using this mailing list

as a way to say hello to all of you in the wider community :-)

About us:

We're building a happy little Lisp company in Zurich. We'd like to

grow to a team of around 30 who develop, market, and support

top-quality network infrastructure to customers all around the world.

Based on our previous experience we expect to become stable and

profitable quite quickly.

Our products are network elements for traffic optimization and

analysis. Facts: We have a 100 nanosecond per packet processing

budget. We've built our own special-purpose protocol stack that

completely bypasses the kernel (no copies, no interrupts, no context

switches). We've developed very fancy data analysis software to

illuminate the (previously unknown) low-level behavior and high-level

traffic profile in a network. We run on highly parallel x86 hardware

and our machines have the feel of Cisco devices. We're experienced

people who like solving real problems, and mobile network operators

really enjoy working with us.

Mobile internet is the wave of the future so the potential user base

for our products is pretty much everybody on earth. There are already

several hundred mobile internet operators in the world today and we're

going to supply Lisp-based network equipment to as many of them as we

can.

We'll have multiple opportunities in 2011 for fun people of solid

reputation to come and join the team -- if you're interested and

qualified then please drop me a line to introduce yourself. Keywords

of special interest: system programming (Lisp, C), data analysis and

presentation (Lisp, R), IP networking (Cisco, Juniper, ...), travel to

exotic locations, charming customers, unix.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading and happy new year :-)

-Luke Gorrie, CTO Teclo Networks, luke.gorrie@teclo.net