Solarflare Communications is a fabless semiconductor and software company headquartered in Irvine, California with a development centre in Cambridge, UK. Solarflare’s mission is to be the leading provider of Ethernet enabling products by focusing on cost-effective, high-performance, standards-based Ethernet interconnects for data centers and enterprise networking.

Solarflare is developing a set of products including 10GBASE-T chips which enable simple, inexpensive 10 Gigabit interconnects that leverage the installed base of copper twisted pair cabling and high-performance 1 Gigabit /10 Gigabit standards-based Ethernet controller technology that increases server system performance with no need either to change existing applications or to deploy new protocols.

Amadeus became an investor in Solarflare Communications through the merger of its portfolio company Level 5 Networks and Solarflare Communications in April 2006. Since its first investment in December 2003 Amadeus had participated in several rounds of financing along with Oak Investment Partners, Foundation Capital, Accel Partners, Anthem Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Europe, and Miramar Venture Partners.