# Nexthop AI

> Nexthop AI builds Ethernet switches, optical interconnects and network software for hyperscale cloud operators and NeoClouds. Its joint development model combines custom hardware, customer-selected open operating systems and qualified connectivity to improve AI infrastructure efficiency and speed deployment.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Anshul Sadana (Founder & CEO)
- **Products:** Nexthop 4000 Series / NH-4010-F, Nexthop 4200 Series / NH-4220-F, Nexthop 5000 Series / NH-5010-F, Nexthop NOS, BYoNOS and community SONiC integration
- **Notable:** Announced US$610 million in cumulative financing across the 2025 launch and March 2026 Series B., Announced three switch platforms and shipments to leading hyperscalers in March 2026., Reported a top-ten SONiC contribution ranking over the preceding year in March 2026.

## Products & services

- **Nexthop 4000 Series / NH-4010-F** — 51.2 Tbps Broadcom Tomahawk 5 platform; up to 64 ports of 800 GbE in 2RU for scale-out, scale-across leaf and front-end networking.
- **Nexthop 4200 Series / NH-4220-F** — 102.4 Tbps Broadcom Tomahawk 6 air-cooled 2RU platform; up to 64 ports of 1.6 TbE.
- **Nexthop 5000 Series / NH-5010-F** — 25.6 Tbps Broadcom Qumran 3D deep-buffer switch for scale-across networking, with line-rate encryption and large routing tables.
- **Nexthop NOS** — Supported, hardened SONiC-derived distribution integrated with Nexthop hardware; documentation, training, labs and deployment support.
- **BYoNOS and community SONiC integration** — Platform drivers, switch abstraction integration, development and testing for a customer-selected operating system, including SONiC or FBOSS.
- **Optics and cables** — 800G and 1.6T connectivity portfolio including LPO, LRO, fully retimed optics and coherent ZR/ZR+ options, qualified with switch platforms.
- **Joint development manufacturing** — Co-design, software integration, testing and manufacturing coordination for customer-specific cloud networking products.

## Achievements

- Announced US$610 million in cumulative financing across the 2025 launch and March 2026 Series B.
- Announced three switch platforms and shipments to leading hyperscalers in March 2026.
- Reported a top-ten SONiC contribution ranking over the preceding year in March 2026.
- Reported its first three products present in the community SONiC repository.
- Named in CRN’s 10 Hottest Networking Startups of 2025, according to the company news archive.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Raised a US$500 million Series B at a US$4.2 billion valuation and announced NH-4010, NH-4220 and NH-5010 platforms.
- **2026-05** — Nexthop and Keysight promoted a joint ONUG presentation on network bottlenecks and GPU ROI.
- **2026-08** — Company LinkedIn posts describe joint OCP APAC sessions with Microsoft on SONiC BMC and Meta on FBOSS; explicit session date was August 11.

## Links

- Website: https://nexthop.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nexthopai

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Last updated: 2026-10-01