Alteon WebSystems

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Alteon WebSystems Inc. NASDAQ: ATON, formerly known as Alteon Networks, "The Server Switching Company", was an Internet infrastructure company based in San Jose, California. They were acquired by Nortel Networks on October 4, 2000. (Original acquisition announcment on July 28, 2000.) They introduced innovative products such as the ACEswitch 180, which was the first network switch to deliver seamless Ethernet with selectable speed, 10/100 or 1000 Mbit/s, on every port. Their ACEdirector Layer 4-7 switch was designed as an integrated services front-end and server load balancer. They also introduced Jumbo Frames (up to 9,000 bytes) with their ACEnic adapters, and supported by their switches.

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