Berkeley Networks
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Berkeley Networks was a leading startup company that built intelligent switches targeted for the high end of the small and medium-sized business computer networking market segment.
The Company was established in 1996. The name of the company comes from the school; University of California Berkeley. The founder and CEO, Ravi Sethi
, received his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley Networks was acquired by Pittsburgh based FORE Systems
for US $250 Million, and then which later was acquired by London based GEC (now Marconi Corporation plc) for £2.8 Billion.
The Company was established in 1996. The name of the company comes from the school; University of California Berkeley. The founder and CEO, Ravi Sethi
Ravi Sethi
Ravi Sethi is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and president of Avaya Labs Research. He is best known as one of three authors of the classic computer science textbook Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, also known as the Dragon Book.Sethi was born in 1947 in Murdana,...
, received his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley Networks was acquired by Pittsburgh based FORE Systems
FORE Systems
FORE Systems was a computer network switching equipment company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company is now part of Ericsson.-History:...
for US $250 Million, and then which later was acquired by London based GEC (now Marconi Corporation plc) for £2.8 Billion.