Ananth Suryanarayana
I have never been more excited in my multi-decade career in data networking than when a ping passes through a myriad of switches and routers. Building and playing with computer networks has always been my passion -- whether the work involves the control plane or the data plane.
startups and established enterprises
RFC 6608 and RFC 7606
I founded Camphor Networks in May 2021 to solve a problem I kept seeing teams struggle with: cloud networking costs that spiraled out of control as traffic grew. AWS charges for every gigabyte that passes through a NAT Gateway, Network Firewall, or Transit Gateway -- and those meters never stop running.
My goal is to give engineering teams a single intelligent appliance that replaces all of those managed services at a flat monthly fee -- with zero per-GB data processing charges. Whether a startup running a handful of microservices or an enterprise spanning 100+ AWS accounts, the cost model should be predictable and the tooling should be easy to work with.
I have worked on data networking software development for more than 25 years, in several startups as well as established enterprises. My work spans the full stack -- from kernel-level packet processing and control-plane protocol design to distributed systems and cloud infrastructure automation.
Why Camphor Networks
Cloud infrastructure teams spend an enormous amount of engineering time and budget on AWS managed networking services that charge by the gigabyte. A busy production environment can easily accumulate $10,000--$15,000 per month just in NAT Gateway, Network Firewall, and Transit Gateway fees -- before a single line of application code is written.
Camphor AI Gateway is a single EC2 appliance deployed inside your VPC that replaces all of those services. It handles source NAT, port forwarding, L4 load balancing, Suricata IDS/IPS, HTTP proxying, TLS termination, VPC peering mesh management, and a built-in LLM proxy with response caching -- all at a flat monthly software fee, with zero data processing charges.
The result is typically a 95--97% reduction in networking costs for teams with meaningful traffic volumes.
22 USPTO Patents
Granted patents in Software Defined Networking, network virtualization, and control-plane protocol design. View the full portfolio on USPTO Assignment Center.
IETF RFC 6608
Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error -- authored and contributed to this IETF standard for BGP error handling. Published May 2012.
IETF RFC 7606
Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages -- co-authored this IETF standard improving the robustness of BGP session management. Published August 2015.
SDN Conference Presentation
Presented on Software Defined Networking at a technology summit. Covers SDN architecture, controller design, and real-world deployment considerations.
Open Source
Active contributor to open-source networking projects. Camphor Networks' public repositories on GitHub include tools and utilities from the platform.
Video Presentations
Full playlist of technical presentations and demos covering cloud networking architecture, SDN, and the Camphor AI Gateway product.
LinkedIn Profile
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