xcr600: Also has anyone checked any of the other BICC private investments for IPO plans?
According to mavern's list, LPGLY owns 2.53 million shares in Paketeer. That company appears to be well-advanced. A poster on the Yahoo board suggests that it might ripe for an IPO.
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Packeteer next LPGLY IPO?
by: cain_delta (31/M/New York, NY) 713 of 722
It sure looks like it ...
BEAR STEARNS SEES BIG GROWTH AHEAD FOR BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT MARKET
New Report Cites Bandwidth Management Pioneer Packeteer, Inc., As Likely Beneficiary
CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 9, 1998 -- A new research report from Bear, Stearns & Co. predicts that the emerging market for bandwidth management will reach $1.1 billion by 2002, as large corporate users look for ways to ensure that such key enterprise applications as SAP R/3 and Oracle will always have the network capacity they need.
Bandwidth management -- an enterprise's ability to ensure that its mission-critical, revenue-generating application traffic takes priority over less urgent traffic such as web browsing -- is one of the emerging business arenas examined in Bear Stearns' September report on "Business-Oriented Network Management [BONM]." BONM, a term for sophisticated network management tools that allow information technology managers to proactively monitor and enhance their network resources, is "in the initial phases of robust long-term demand cycle," the report said.
Beneficiaries of the strong growth in the bandwidth management segment are "likely to be companies with an early-to-market advantage, such as privately-held Packeteer [Inc., Cupertino, Calif.], which provides what we consider to be the most robust bandwidth management solution on the market today," the report said, adding that there are "likely to be significant OEM opportunities" for such companies with network hardware vendors.
The report also assesses two technological approaches to bandwidth management -- TCP rate control and class-based queuing -- and concludes that TCP rate control, pioneered by Packeteer, is more effective in ensuring quality of service (QoS) for critical business applications.
While queuing products "only queue and discard traffic with little knowledge of the underlying business impact," the report said, TCP rate control lets the user assign specific bandwidth levels to various traffic classes based on corporate policies (e.g., 8 Kbps for delay-sensitive voice traffic), guarantee minimum bandwidth levels for mission-critical traffic and thus enforce service-level agreements (SLAs). "TCP rate control could help achieve the ultimate QoS in the global networks, which we define as the delivery of guaranteed bandwidth for the most mission-critical applications."
The report called Packeteer's PacketShaper bandwidth management system "the only solution on the market that can look deep into each packet and help achieve real QoS by guaranteeing and allocating bits-per-second bandwidth based on predetermined policies for different enterprise applications, traffic sources, users, departments, URLs or IP addresses."
A copy of the complete Bear Stearns report on "Business-Oriented Network Management" is available from Packeteer on request.
Packeteer was founded in 1995 to develop products that address the problem of increasingly overcrowded bandwidth resources on enterprise networks and the Internet. The award-winning PacketShaper bandwidth-management device lets network managers and Internet service providers set and enforce policies to prioritize and control network traffic, ensuring users end-to-end quality of service. More than 1,500 customers worldwide use PacketShaper to ensure that their networks are always available to deliver their mission-critical applications and protect their investments in costly wide-area and international connections. For more information, contact Packeteer at (408) 873-4400, fax (408) 873-4410; or visit the Packeteer Web site at packeteer.com.
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