Aironet Wireless Communications, network equipment maker, was acquired in 1999 by which Silicon Valley giant?
04991a8c5aacc5960285f3bfe86057c8
Aironet Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet is a maker of wireless networking equipment currently operated as a division of Cisco Systems. It was started by ex-Marconi Wireless employees in 1986 as Telesystems SLW in Canada, right after the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened up the ISM bands for spread spectrum license-free use. Telxon acquired Telesystems SLW in 1992, and Aironet Wireless Communications was spun off from Telxon's RF Division in 1994. Cisco Systems acquired Aironet in 1999.
f5056ef48a35e16f75ff7865e1379b94
Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (known as Cisco) is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, Jabber and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security and energy management.
c1ee7d12a0d6592224fbb498bc670fe3
Masergy Communications Masergy Communications is a software defined networking services company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Plano, Texas, and as of 2015 had 500 employees. Its annual revenue in 2016 was $300 million, and provides Hybrid Networking, Managed Security, and Cloud Communications.
65a21554577f202045d4a825a9095b07
Microwave Data Systems Microwave Data Systems, Inc. (MDS) is a company that makes wireless communications equipment for the industrial market. MDS was a subsidiary of Moseley Associates and was acquired, in January 2007, by General Electric Multilin, becoming known as GE MDS, LLC.
d0a31bf5a7333f6c4bf0c29891b88c92
PicoChip Picochip was a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company based in Bath, England, founded in 2000. In January 2012 Picochip was acquired by Mindspeed Technologies, Inc and subsequently by Intel.
13910ae4d7415bae5f96f0938e9c6f15
Russell Artzt Russell M. Artzt (born 1948) Co-founded Computer Associates International, Inc. (now CA Technologies) with Charles B. Wang. While Russ was working at the Electronic Laboratories in the 1960s at Columbia University, he met Charles Wang. They became friends and later both joined Standard Data. "In the late 1970s a Swiss company, owned by billionaire Walter Haefner, had developed a computer program, Sort. Russel Artzt and Charles Wang formed their own company and bought the company from Haefner. {The preceding two statements appear to be incorrect, apparently from confusion with CA's 1987 acquisition of UCCEL Corp.}" Haefner still is the majority stockholder of Computer Associates owning over 25% of CA Inc.
c31502cb0de97cacd12363d5b8323763
Plantronics Plantronics is an electronics company producing audio communications equipment for business and consumers. Its products support unified communications, mobile use, gaming and music. Plantronics is a publicly traded company (NYSE: PLT) headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. Most of Plantronics' products are produced in China and Mexico.
680c5f01ca08dc7b8a416215c126dbc9
NetApp NetApp, Inc. is an American multinational storage and data management company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 since 2012. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers software, systems and services to manage and store data, including its proprietary Data ONTAP operating system.
37d93cbb4c8e4bfb3fe1d37ad34cbaf5
Recourse Technologies Recourse Technologies was a network security company based in Redwood City, California. Founded by Frank Huerta and Michael Lyle in February 1999, it was later acquired by Symantec on July 17, 2002 for US$135 million.
23650d35add665be3adf4fb4ffb26800
Silterra Malaysia Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is a Malaysian semiconductor manufacturer founded in November 1995. Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. was formerly known as Wafer Technology (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and changed its name to Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. in December 1999. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Kulim, Malaysia with sales and marketing offices in San Jose, California; and Hsinchu, Taiwan. Silterra is started as a project of strategic national interest to promote front-end semiconductor manufacturing and a catalyst for high technology investments in Malaysia. Since its inception, Silterra has served many top-tier global fabless design and product companies covering the consumer electronics, communications & computing, and mobile device market segments.
3e5138fc4462ad7e45b0818a3ca7aa4a
Parc Technologies Parc Technologies was a network optimization software company based in London. It was founded in 1999 as a spin-off from Imperial College, London. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on July 8, 2004.
9abd623e92f8e9b33e0c3d23e022d739
Broadcom Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 and currently operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged entity called Broadcom Limited. The division is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom Corporation was founded by professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas from UCLA in 1991. In 1995 the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol: BRCM) and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.
4893ea8074f1a840e93a14e5e1cbcdc7
Multibeam Corporation Multibeam is an American corporation that engages in the design of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Based in Santa Clara, in the Silicon Valley, Multibeam is led by Dr. David K. Lam, the founder and first CEO of Lam Research.
e6535ae84a6f9a36768f81b27601a19f
List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996.
68db4298c99ee8855c49fac682304273
International Network Services Inc. International Network Services Inc. (INS) was a network architecture services provider based in Mountain View, California. Previously closely associated with Cisco, it was acquired by the former Lucent in 1999 for $3.7bn. Following the collapse of the dot-com bubble, Lucent sold the unit back to employees and investors for an undisclosed sum. Then in 2007, INS was acquired by BT Group for £133 MM (now part of "BT Advise" Professional Services of BT (global services) based out of the USA.
47dd45f93bfe399fdd411c50444cf7db
Wellfleet Communications Wellfleet Communications was an Internet router company founded in 1986 by Paul Severino, Bill Seifert, Steven Willis and David Rowe based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and later Billerica, Massachusetts. In an attempt to more effectively compete with Cisco Systems, its chief rival, it merged in October, 1994 with SynOptics Communications of Santa Clara, California to form Bay Networks in a deal worth US$ 2.7B. Bay Networks would in turn by acquired by Nortel in June, 1998 for US$ 9.1B.
c3389ba27a768b9f6b4aff1014047075
JouleX JouleX was a software company that specializes in monitoring and control of the power consumption of computers and associated devices attached to networks. Founded in 2009, with headquarters in Atlanta, USA, it was acquired by Cisco in 2013.
338f1994210707c1486c96d253756193
Silicon Valley of India The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of Bangalore. It was named so because Bangalore is on the Mysore Plateau, the area is also sometimes referred to as "Silicon Plateau". The name signifies Bangalore's status as a hub for information technology companies in India and is a comparative reference to the original Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area, California), the major hub for information technology companies in the United States and in the world. One of the earliest mentions of this sobriquet occurred in late 2012 by CNN. The more prevalent application of the nickname Bangalore began in the 1990s based on a concentration of firms specializing in research and development (R&D), electronics and software production.
13b8331c694df6079c0f7892dddbb45c
Enron Wind Enron Wind Systems, part of the Enron group, were manufacturers of wind turbines. The group was formed after Enron acquired Zond Corporation of California in January 1997, which was then the largest US developer of wind-powered electricity.
d84c78bbc3d5d154fce4d5a58219b078
Silicon Beach Silicon Beach is the Westside region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area that is home to over 500 tech startup companies, with emphasis on the coastal strip north of LAX to Santa Monica Mountains, but the term may be applied loosely or colloquially to refer to most anywhere in the LA Basin. Major technology companies have opened offices in the region including Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, BuzzFeed, Facebook, Salesforce, AOL, Electronic Arts, EdgeCast Networks, and MySpace. The region is considered the second- or third-largest tech hub in the world, according to various reports. Nevertheless, the headquarters of these established corporate tech titans tends to be elsewhere, though the region has had startups proliferation. Unlike the traditional definition of Silicon Valley (Menlo Park to Santa Clara) where the economy is overwhelmingly technology geared, Silicon Beach, much like San Francisco, tends to have a more diversified economy whereby tourism, finance, and/or other industries also play a major role.
0438a55cd3bd143d7a607977475e0eb3
Meru Networks Meru Networks was a supplier of wireless local area networks (WLANs) to healthcare, enterprise, hospitality, K-12 education, higher education, and other markets. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, the company made its initial public offering in March 2010.
055d86164eb1dd80c7b35286a02c7cb4
Solidcore Systems Solidcore Systems, Inc. was a software company based in Cupertino, California, that developed software to detect and prevent unwanted change. It was acquired by McAfee in June 2009.