Draco is a compact appliance facilitating protocol auto-discovery and traffic targeting on optical networks. The system provides interfaces to 24x10G SFP+ modules and 4x100G QSFP28 modules, deployed in conjunction with a proprietary 200G processor to automate WAN autodiscovery, termination, and payload targeting for intercept and analysis.

Judge’s comment: “Interesting product for specialized customers. Port auto-tune functionality is useful...overall product appears to be quite well executed."

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