Proteon, Inc.
| Public | |
| Traded as | NASDAQ: PTON |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Networking equipment |
| Fate | Relaunched as OpenROUTE Networks |
| Successor | Netrix, NX Networks, NSGDatacom |
| Founded 📆 | 1972 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Westborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, US |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Howard Salwen, Founder |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | [Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). ] |
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Proteon, Inc. was a pioneering designer and manufacturer computer network equipment based in Westborough, Massachusetts. Proteon created the first commercial Token Ring products and created first commercially available multiprotcol Internet router as well as the OSPF routing protocol.
History[edit]
Proteon designed and manufactured of some of the earliest commercial Local Area Network and TCP/IP Internet Router products[1]. Although founded in 1972 by Howard Salwen as communications consulting firm, Proteon became a manufacturer when they produced the first commercial Token Ring network interfaces and media access units in conjunction with MIT[2]. In 1981, they released the 10Mbit/sec Pronet-10 Token Ring network.[3] and evolved the speeds through 16 MBit/sec, 80 Mbit/sec[4] and and 100 Mbit/sec. IBM released a competing Token Ring system in 1984[5].
In 1986, Proteon released the first commercially available multi-protocol router, the p4200, based on the MIT multi-protocol router, using code developed by Noel Chiappa. Proteon's router products made them one of the key companies producing products to support the growing Internet, among rivals such as Cisco and Wellfleet Communications.[6]
Proteon went public in 1991, issuing 3.1 million shares[7]
Proteon was renamed and relaunched as OpenROUTE Networks in 1998[8]. OpenRoute Networks merged into Netrix in 1999[9]. The combined company was rebranded as NX Networks. which was acquired by NSGDatacom in 2002, who dropped the NX Networks name in favor of Netrix.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ Carpenter, Brian E. (April 10, 2013). Network Geeks: How They Built The Internet. Springer London. p. 85. ISBN 9781447150251. Search this book on
- ↑ Chiappa, J. Noel (April–June 2014). "Early Token Ring Work at MIT". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 36 (2): 82–83. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2014.14. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Pelkey, James. "Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications 1968-1988". A HISTORY OF COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS: 1968 -1988. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "Network World". 2 February 1987. p. 17. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ Sanger, David (9 May 1984). "A LINKING NETWORK BY I.B.M." The New York Times. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "INTERNET HISTORY OF 1980S". Computer History Museum.
- ↑ "Equity Issues This Week". The New York Times. 28 May 1991. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Form 8-k". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ↑ Dow Jones NewsWires (27 August 1999). "Netrix to Merge With Openroute In Deal Valued at About $114 Million". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ↑ "NSGDatacom Corporate Profile" (PDF). Retrieved 3 April 2021.
External links[edit]
- Official Company Web Site at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 1998)
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