The Performant leadership and FPGA coders were just Accedian employees sub-tasked to Performant. They still all work for Accedian except for ~4 other employees who got hired on to fill out the team (myself as the public/technical figurehead, Brent Schnell as the channel manager from Moto/Cambium, and two web/marketing people). They're all located at the Montreal, Quebec/CA office in the building shared by Ciena, Bombradier, and others
I think the original tech that RFLO was built on was "wack". Requiring you to just have a ring topology, and only a ring topology, is pretty dumb. If it were originally based on SPB or TRILL, things would have been much different. Anywho, to do the kinds of things they did, it requires expensive FPGA designs at every end-point, and it's a patented meathod. I've thought about it from a few different angles, and can't figure out a way to make the measurements as accurate as they need to be with sub-microsecond latencies and still keep it cheap.
It was a genius idea though.
