Brantley Coile

Who is Brantley Coile?

Brantley Coile is an inventor and founder of network technology companies whose products include PIX Firewall, the first stateful-inspection firewall and Cisco Systems' first load-balancer, LocalDirector. Coile's patents include the fundamental patents on Network Address Translation.

Coile earned a degree in computer science at the University of Georgia and later worked at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill. In 1994, he co-founded Network Translation, where he created the PIX Firewall appliance a new class of data communication firewalls utilizing statefull packet inspection.

After leaving Cisco Systems in 2000, he founded Coraid to design and develop network storage devices using the ATA-over-Ethernet, an open and lightweight network storage protocol.