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May 13, 1996, Issue: 1006
Section: News
IDT Invests In IP Switch Startup Ipsilon
By Tom McHale
San Mateo, Calif. - Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT)
has made what it calls a "strategic investment" in Ipsilon
Networks, a Palo Alto, Calif., startup
Ipsilon, which makes an Internet protocol (IP) switch that
integrates IP routing software with Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) switching hardware in a single scalable platform, is a
privately held company launched with venture capital in 1994; it
shipped its first IP switch, the ATM1600, last month.
"IDT is really a component maker that is building the Internet
infrastructure, with just about everything we make going into
routers, bridges, and switches," said an IDT spokeswoman.
According to IDT, the investment in Ipsilon is aimed at bringing
together the expertise of the two companies to enable faster,
more reliable, and better quality network communications. IDT
brings its ATM expertise to the bargain in products such as its
segmentation and reassembly controller and physical-layer
transceiver used in ATM network interface cards.
"This is a minor equity investment," explained John Mick, vice
president of IDT's systems technology group. "It's a marriage of
silicon and software expertise, and the two companies will be
jointly developing products," he said. While product development
is already under way, Mick characterized the relationship as long
term; he doesn't expect any product announcements before the
end of the year.
ATM networking technology has made significant inroads into
wide-area- network backbones, but it cannot currently
accommodate the most widely used network protocol, the IP,
without complex software translation or Ipsilon's IP switching
products, according to IDT. |
