Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company and a leader in core, edge, and multi-cloud routing and switching infrastructure, announced a significant new investment of $30 million from Prosperity7 Ventures, NVIDIA, Lightspeed, Hitachi Ventures, Liberty Global, Clear Ventures, and General Catalyst.
Investor interest in Arrcus comes from the company’s success with leading Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers and will enable the company to expand platform support, accelerate growth, and continue delivering cost-effective and transformational networking solutions to customers worldwide.
As the adoption of AI continues, there has been a need for distributed networking to improve the efficiency of compute infrastructure spanning data center, 5G, edge, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments across enterprise, cloud, and network operators.
Arrcus’ differentiated routing and switching platform, Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE), features a distributed microservices architecture that is flexible, high-performance, scalable, fully programmable, modular, and hybrid cloud-ready. And it is deployable on various form factors, including data processing units (DPUs), merchant silicon, and compute, and enables a wide range of use cases including low-latency data center networking, modern edge deployments, telco access and transport, and hybrid multi-cloud connectivity.
Arrcus’ ACE networking platform, utilizing the NVIDIA BlueField DPU, enables customers to efficiently offload, accelerate, and isolate compute-intensive networking applications like security and traffic engineering. And the growth of GenAI applications gives customers the ability to have high-performance, secure connectivity within the data center while delivering higher utilization and power efficiency for compute-intensive workloads.
The collaboration between NVIDIA and Arrcus can help extend AI data center architectures to distributed configurations supported by modular designs like the NVIDIA MGX platform.
Arrcus is gaining significant attention for its networking software solutions that enable businesses to achieve substantial cost savings while improving scalability, performance, and reliability in core, edge, and multi-cloud infrastructures. And Arrcus networking is ideally suited for the telecom, financial services, and industrial verticals, amongst others.
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“We are thrilled to welcome NVIDIA as our latest investor and look forward to building on our collaboration. Arrcus’ leading networking software coupled with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure will help deliver maximum efficiency to customers from data centers as well as their edge and cloud computing environments. We also extend our gratitude to Prosperity7, Lightspeed, Hitachi Ventures, Liberty Global, Clear Ventures, and General Catalyst for their continued support and confidence in our vision.”
– Shekar Ayyar, Chairman and CEO of Arrcus
“Modern networks are evolving to address customer needs in the era of AI. We’re collaborating with Arrcus to provide high-performance, secure and cost-efficient data center networking for a variety of accelerated computing applications.”
– Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA
“AI is driving the need for more flexible networking to maximize the impact of high-performance compute cycles. We are pleased to see Arrcus software working across leading industry hardware platforms for distributed datacenter networking.”
– Jason Hardy, CTO for AI, Hitachi Vantara
“We are excited to see the new investment in Arrcus. Arrcus networking has the potential for high performance at lower cost for datacenter and carrier networks, as well as meeting the demands of infrastructure for AI and 5G.”
– Adrian Drury, MD Platform Technology Liberty Global
“Arrcus is driving an exciting disruption in networking for datacenters and AI. After leading their D round, we are now excited to join NVIDIA and other investors in continuing to support their growth and platform adoption among leading customers.”
– Abhishek Shukla, Managing Director, Prosperity7 Ventures
“Arrcus continues to push the boundaries of networking innovation with their ACE platform. Their unique approach to leveraging distributed microservices architecture and integration with leading hardware platforms enables a wide range of networking use cases from the edge to datacenters to multi-clouds, setting them apart in the industry. This new investment further validates Arrcus’ vision and capability to deliver high-performance, scalable, and cost-efficient networking solutions that meet the evolving demands of AI-driven environments.”
– Alan Weckel, Co-Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group
