Information About ™Abrizio |
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FOUNDING It was founded in 1997 by Dr. Nick McKeown and Anders Swahn and received USD 6M of funding from Benchmark Capital and Sequoia Capital. PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY The product name TT1 referred to "Tiny Tera" meaning a small, highly integrated semiconductor implementation of a terabit/s capacity switching fabric. Abrizio's corporate colors were purple and yellow. Abrizio's key technology was a sophisticated implementation of a Wavefront Arbiter which allowed the switch to make complex arbitration decisions very quickly. SENIOR LEADERSHIP The CEO of Abrizio was Anders Swahn. The CTO was Dr. Nick McKeown who was taking a leave from his professorship at Stanford University . Zubair Hussein was the V.P. of Engineering. ACQUISITION Abrizio was acquired on August 24 , 1999 by PMC-Sierra for USD 400M. After the acquisition, the former Abrizio development team completed the TTx switch chip set. |
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