# Nile

> Nile is a San Jose-based Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) company founded in 2018 by former Cisco leaders Pankaj Patel and John Chambers, along with Suresh Katukam and Sri Hosakote. It replaces the traditional buy-and-manage model for enterprise wired and wireless LANs with a cloud-delivered subscription that bundles hardware, software, zero-trust security, AI-driven automation, and performance guarantees. Nile designs, deploys, monitors, and continuously optimizes campus networks so IT teams no longer have to, targeting the roughly $75B enterprises spend each year running networks.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** Pankaj Patel (Co-founder & CEO), John Chambers (Co-founder & Board Member (former Cisco CEO/Chairman)), Suresh Katukam (Co-founder & Chief Product Officer), Sri Hosakote (Co-founder & Chief Development Officer)
- **Team size:** ~200 employees (Wikipedia); some data providers list up to ~1,400. HQ in San Jose with an engineering center in Bengaluru, India.
- **Products:** Nile Access Service, Nile Trust Service, Nile Guest Service, Nile Services Cloud & AI Automation
- **Notable:** Named a Visionary in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, Won a 2024 CRN Tech Innovators Award, Recognized as a strong performer in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for enterprise LAN

## Products & services

- **Nile Access Service** — Subscription-based NaaS for secure wired and wireless campus LAN. Bundles access points, switches, software, and cloud management covering the full lifecycle: design, deployment, policy enforcement, monitoring, updates, and continuous optimization - backed by performance guarantees.
- **Nile Trust Service** — Built-in zero-trust architecture with end-to-end encryption, automatic device isolation, and automated security patching so no device is trusted by default.
- **Nile Guest Service** — Secure guest access that segments visitor traffic from the internal network by tunneling it to a local Nile point of presence.
- **Nile Services Cloud & AI Automation** — AI-powered analytics and automation that designs networks, predicts and resolves incidents, and enforces policy - the engine behind the self-driving network. Add-on services include RADIUS, DHCP, and Edge Services.

## Achievements

- Named a Visionary in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
- Won a 2024 CRN Tech Innovators Award
- Recognized as a strong performer in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for enterprise LAN
- Raised over $300M total, including a $175M Series C in 2023
- Launched the industry's first self-driving enterprise network platform (2022)

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Appointed Mike Weston as President of International Sales and Operations to drive global expansion.
- **2026-04** — Refreshed brand and logo, adding a shield motif to signal security built into the architecture.
- **2026** — Named a Visionary in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired & Wireless LAN.
- **2024-03** — Introduced AI-powered automation services across the Nile platform.

## Links

- Website: https://nilesecure.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nilesecure
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NileSecure
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NileSecure

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Last updated: 2026-07-25