Kalpana (company)

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Kalpana was a computer networking equipment manufacturer, located in Silicon Valley during the 1980s and 1990s. ^[1] Kalpana introduced the concept of a multi-port network switch in 1989. They also invented EtherChannel, a technology which provides additional inter-switch bandwidth by running several links in parallel. Kalpana was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1994.

"By 1994, Kalpana was in a dogfight with 3Com and other switching vendors, which had embraced higher-speed uplinks and had deeper pockets for development than Kalpana had."

"it became clear that if Cisco were truly going to own enterprise networking, the company would have to embrace switching--and quickly"

[edit] References

1. ^ Robert J. Kohlhepp (2000-10-02). The 10 Most Important Products of the Decade. Network Computing. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.