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

See also: http://www.teclo.net/ http://lukego.livejournal.com/26941.html http://trittweiler.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-im-up-to-lately.html http://www.advogato.org/person/crhodes/diary/147.html