In 2004, Aquantia was founded with the vision of revolutionizing Ethernet and accelerating connectivity. As mobility and data consolidation in the cloud gained momentum, Aquantia recognized the need for Multi-Gig Ethernet solutions which could serve a variety of markets and products at both ends of the network, where data is stored and consumed, and where bottlenecks were fast developing. First, the company focused on delivering innovative products for Data Center connectivity, with the 2012 market entry of the world’s first integrated 10GBASE-T MAC/PHY for servers. In 2014, Aquantia introduced a new Multi-Gig Ethernet technology into the Enterprise Infrastructure market, joined by Cisco and others in co-founding the NBASE-T Alliance. The Multi-Gig technology Aquantia pioneered served as the baseline for the 802.3bz standard that was ratified by the IEEE in September 2016. This standard is now the basis for all new Multi-Gig implementations on Cat 5e and Cat 6 cabling in the Enterprise, SMB and SoHo environments.