Brantley Coile

Brantley Coile is an inventor and founder of network technology companies whose products include PIX Firewall, the first stateful-inspection firewall and Cisco Systems' first load-balancer, LocalDirector.[1] Coile's patents include the fundamental patents on Network Address Translation (NAT).

Coile earned a degree in computer science at the University of Georgia. In 1994, he co-founded Network Translation, where he created the PIX Firewall appliance a new class of data communication firewalls utilizing stateful packet inspection.

After leaving Cisco Systems in 2000, he founded Coraid, Inc. to design and develop network storage devices using the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE), an open and lightweight network storage protocol.[2]

Coile founded South Suite, Inc. in 2013 and continued to develop AoE technology.[3] In 2015 he purchased Coraid's EtherDrive intellectual property and founded The Brantley Coile Company, a subsidiary of SouthSuite.[4]

References
  1. . "Bloomberg Business Week Executive Profile - Brantley Coile".
  2. "Startup with All-Star Backers Aims to Disrupt Storage Market". Fortune. January 25, 2010. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
  3. "Company Overview of SouthSuite, Inc". Bloomberg Business. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. Mellor, Chris (14 May 2015). "Crashed Coraid's Tech Resurrected By Founder's New Start-Up". The Register. The Register. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
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