NextHop Technologies is a leading provider of Wi-Fi mobility solutions and networking protocol software for the wired and wireless communications market. NextHop's GateD® legacy provides the most complete and vendor-neutral set of switching and routing protocols in the industry. Fulfilling the needs of the fast growing mobile communications market, NextHop's hardware-agnostic software solutions are more reliable, easier to use and more scalable than any other solution. By providing turnkey software solutions on merchant silicon and off-the-shelf hardware, NextHop offers the unique combination of quick time-to-market and comprehensive networking functionality for mobile enterprise and carrier equipment manufacturers.

NextHop is privately held and venture funded with investors including NEA, Labrador Ventures, Parker Price VC, and Duchossois Technology Partners. NextHop has raised $42 Million in venture capital and has 70 employees with offices in Mountain View California, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Acton, Massachusetts and Bangalore, India. NextHop has international sales offices in London, UK, Taipei, Taiwan and Beijing, China.

NextHop has unequaled experience building networking software for equipment manufacturers, with more than 150 carrier and enterprise OEM customers over the last 6 years. Leading networking companies such as Dlink, Check Point, Enterasys, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Huawei, Juniper, LG Electronics, Lucent, Motorola, N.E.T, Nokia, Nortel, Riverstone and 3Com use NextHop software solutions to power their products.

NextHop’s Dynamic Network Architecture (DNA) is hardware agnostic and allows partners to easily augment NextHop solutions with differentiating applications and features from our ecosystem partners. NextHop partners include AirDefense, AirTight, ASUS, Broadcom, Check Point, Embedded Solutions Partners, Fulcrum, Marvell, MontaVista and Wind River.