OnStream Networks
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OnStream Networks was a Santa Clara, California
-based supplier of Circuit Emulation Service
(CES) based Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) solutions. It was formerly T3Plus.
The company developed and manufactured ATM Multiplexers. CPE interfaces consisted of CES, Frame Relay, V.35, HSSI, Ethernet, and Optical Interfaces. ATM WAN interfaces consisted DS1/E1, IMA (N x DS1/E1), DS3/E3, and STM-1 Interfaces. Per VCC Priority Queuing, shaping and policing features were implemented. In addition there was a Bulk Traffic Shaping feature that was available.
They used the AAL1gator
designed by Network Synthesis and acquired by Integrated Telecom Technology
(later acquired by PMC-Sierra
) to implement their CES solution.
Their office was on Octavius Drive in Santa Clara, California
. Jim Mongiello was the President and CEO. Ken Koenig was the V.P. of Engineering. Mitri Halabi and John Guerrero were Engineering Directors. Randy Brumfield was a Director of Marketing. Cem Yildrim and Jim Jacobson were lead engineers.
OnStream was acquired by 3Com
, also of Santa Clara, in 1996 for $254M.
Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...
-based supplier of Circuit Emulation Service
Circuit Emulation Service
Circuit Emulation Service is an emerging telecommunication technology used to transmit time-division multiplexed services such as the traditional Digital Signal and the E-carrier circuits over Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks...
(CES) based Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a standard switching technique designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing, and it encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells. This differs from approaches such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet that...
(ATM) solutions. It was formerly T3Plus.
The company developed and manufactured ATM Multiplexers. CPE interfaces consisted of CES, Frame Relay, V.35, HSSI, Ethernet, and Optical Interfaces. ATM WAN interfaces consisted DS1/E1, IMA (N x DS1/E1), DS3/E3, and STM-1 Interfaces. Per VCC Priority Queuing, shaping and policing features were implemented. In addition there was a Bulk Traffic Shaping feature that was available.
They used the AAL1gator
AAL1gator
The AAL1gator is a semiconductor device that implements the Circuit Emulation Service. It was developed between 1994 and 1998 and became a run-away success. It also played a role in the acquisition of four companies. The name was based on the fact that the AAL1gator implements the ATM AAL-1...
designed by Network Synthesis and acquired by Integrated Telecom Technology
Integrated Telecom Technology
Integrated Telecom Technology, Inc., known as "IgT" was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1991 by Ken Lee, Greg Werth, Imran Chaudhri, Jerry Tall, and Chi Wai in Gaithersburg, Maryland. IgT was one of the first companies to focus on semiconductors for the communications marketplace...
(later acquired by PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra is a fabless semiconductor company which develops and sells devices into the communications, storage, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces.-Corporate history:...
) to implement their CES solution.
Their office was on Octavius Drive in Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...
. Jim Mongiello was the President and CEO. Ken Koenig was the V.P. of Engineering. Mitri Halabi and John Guerrero were Engineering Directors. Randy Brumfield was a Director of Marketing. Cem Yildrim and Jim Jacobson were lead engineers.
OnStream was acquired by 3Com
3Com
3Com was a pioneering digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw...
, also of Santa Clara, in 1996 for $254M.