Cortina Systems

Cortina Systems, Inc. is a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications founded in 2001. It is based in California.

History

Amir Nayyerhabibi (President and CEO), Zino Chair (Vice President Marketing) and Hojjat Salemi (CTO) founded Cortina Systems, Inc in 2001 in the Menlo Park, California library, located in Silicon Valley. It is a private company which employs over 300 people worldwide. It has development centers in USA, Canada, China, Taiwan, Israel.

Products

Cortina’s product line spans computer and telecommunication networking: the company has products for core, enterprise, metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for the digital home networks. Products include:

In 2006 it announced the Interlaken protocol with Cisco Systems.[1]

Manufacturing

Cortina is a fabless semiconductor company. It outsources all semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California. It also has other research and development sites in Hsinchu (Taiwan), Ottawa (Canada), Raleigh (USA) and Shanghai (China).

Acquisitions

Cortina has acquired several companies.

Date Acquired Company Expertise
2004 Azanda Network Devices Traffic management and ATM Segmentation and Reassembly products[2][3]
2006 Intel Optical Networking – Component Division Ethernet Framers, Ethernet PHYs, Optical Transport FEC framers, Ethernet over SONET service framers, and T1/E1 Line Interface Units[4][5]
2007 Immenstar Passive optical networking system-on-chip technology[6]
2008 Storm Semiconductor Network processors for the home[7]

References

  1. "Cisco Systems, Cortina Systems Announce Interlaken Protocol". News release (Cisco Systems Inc.). April 24, 2006. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  2. "Cortina Acquires Azanda Network Devices". Converge! Network digest. February 2, 2005. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  3. "Cortina Acquires Azanda Network Devices". Light Reading. February 2, 2005. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  4. "Cortina Systems Purchases Intel's Optical-Networking Components Business". News release (Intel). September 11, 2006. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  5. "Top 10 Private Companies: Cortina Systems Inc. No. 2". Light Reading. August 15, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  6. Meghan Fuller (February 26, 2007). "Cortina Systems enters access arena with Immenstar acquisition". Lightwave online blog. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  7. Dean Takahashi (June 18, 2008). "Cortina Systems buys Storm Semiconductor". Venture Beat blog. Retrieved June 16, 2011.

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