AuroraNetics

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AuroraNetics was a San Jose, California based fabless semiconductor vendor which specialized in making devices for a pre-standard version of IEEE 802.17 also known as Resilient Packet Ring or RPR. RPR is a protocol for metro-area networking, typically implemented on SONET rings at either OC-48 (2.5 Gbit/s) or OC-192 (10 Gbit/s).

They were acquired by Cisco Systems on July 11, 2000 for $150M. At the time of the acquisition they had 52 employees. Their CEO was Nader Vasseghi. Necdet Uzun was a key technologist and their representative to the 802.17 RPR working group.


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