Kalpana (company)
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Kalpana was a computer networking equipment manufacturer, located in Silicon Valley[1] during the 1980s and 1990s.[citation needed]
Kalpana is considered to be the inventor of Ethernet switching[1] as the company was the first to introduce the concept of a multi-port network switch with its seven-port EtherSwitch[2] in 1990.[3] Kalpana also invented EtherChannel, a technology which provides additional inter-switch bandwidth by running several links in parallel. Kalpana was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1994.[1]
Kalpana had been co-founded by Vinod Bhardwaj, an entrepreneur of Indian origin,[citation needed] and Larry Blair.[4]
They named the company after Bhardwaj's wife, Kalpana, whose name means "imagination" in Hindi.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Cisco to Acquire Kalpana, Leading Ethernet Switching Company". Cisco Systems, Inc. Archived from the original on 2010-06-18. http://www.webcitation.org/5qaWOQRdn.
- ^ Robert J. Kohlhepp (2000-10-02). "The 10 Most Important Products of the Decade". Network Computing. http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1products_5.html. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ "AT&T makes Ethernet switching as easy as a "Seabreeze"". Lucent Technologies. Archived from the original on 1997-06-14. http://web.archive.org/web/19970614225541/http://www.lucent.com/press/0895/950822.mea.html.
- ^ a b Breidenbach, Susan (May 4, 1998). "Switching grows up: Where we've come from". Network World. http://www.networkworld.com/news/0504switch6.html.
