- Alteon WebSystems
Alteon WebSystems Inc. nasdaq2|ATON, formerly known as Alteon Networks, "The Server Switching Company", was an Internet infrastructure company based in
San Jose, California . Alteon was founded in 1996 by Mark Bryers, John Hayes, Ted Schroeder and Wayne Hathaway. Alteon was [http://www.Nortel.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/2000c/10_05_0000660_alteon_closing.html acquired] byNortel Networks onOctober 4 ,2000 . ( [http://www.Nortel.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/2000b/07_28_0000483_apache.html Original acquisition announcment] onJuly 28 ,2000 .)Alteon introduced innovative products such as the ACEswitch 180, which was the first
network switch to deliver seamlessEthernet with selectable speed, 10/100 or 1000Mbit/s , on every port. Their ACEdirector Layer 4-7 switch was designed as an integrated services front-end and serverload balancer . They also introducedJumbo Frames (up to 9,000 bytes) with their ACEnic adapters, and supported by their switches.In addition to their Server Switches, Alteon produced the first
Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC) in 1997. Alteon's third generation Gigabit Ethernet NIC became the basis forBroadcom 's family of gigabit NICs and has shipped over 60 million cores.Trivia
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