The IT group considered Cisco Systems, Bay Networks, and 3Com before choosing 3Com's CoreBuilder 9000.
Many Silicon Valley companies, including Sun, Silicon Graphics, Bay Networks and Hewlett-Packard, have offices there.
The salesforce seems motivated too, signing contacts with some big players including Ford Motor Company and Bay Networks.
"Cabletron, Bay Networks and 3Com all thought they had Cisco killers, " he says.
While that did not happen, Nortel did acquire Bay Networks.
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The company launched in 1996 as a division of Bay Networks , and then became part of the Canadian telecom concern Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ), which spun it off in 1998.
Cisco, which has bought or invested in 25 companies over the past three years, is expected to do another dozen deals this year. 3Com and Bay Networks, Cisco's main competitors, have also been buying companies left, right and centre.
Better Place has also struck deals to build electric car charging networks in the San Francisco Bay Area, Canada and Hawaii.
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Green Bay Packers game on ESPN doubtless drew some eyeballs away from the Big Four networks, so let's keep that in mind.
The Vice President will be joined by Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women Lynn Rosenthal, Jimmy Rollins of the Philadelphia Phillies, David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays and Andy Katz of ESPN to release the PSA that will air on various television networks and online platforms this summer.
This is why Israel leads the world in deeper computing and communications technologies, while the similarly populated San Francisco Bay Area can afford to devote its IQ to more lighthearted endeavors, such as smartphones, social networks and life-enhancing medical technologies.
The routers will also feature the company's mydlink Cloud Services functionality, which lets users keep tabs on their networks via an app for Android and iOS. D-Link also introduced the new ShareCenter 2-bay Cloud NAS, which supports up to 3TB hard drives and handles RAID 1, RAID 0, Standard and JBOD configurations.
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