Tom Lyon ✅3d ago

OTD 1996 (30 years!) - #IpsilonNetworks takes the best of show award at the Networld+InterOp show.
My career has been pretty much downhill since then. :-)

https://web.archive.org/web/19970414155838/http://www.ipsilon.com/news/mghill-announce.html
https://web.archive.org/web/19970103020108/http://www.ipsilon.com/productinfo/datasheets/atm1600.pdf

Tom Lyon ✅Dec 9, 2022
OTD 1997: #Nokia purchases my startup #IpsilonNetworks. First Nokia presence in Silicon Valley. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nokia-buys-ipsilon-for-120-million/
Nokia buys Ipsilon for $120 million

The once proud start-up that, in the past, framed the debate on ways to send traffic based on IP may have succombed to the strain of taking on Cisco Systems.

CNET