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ORIGINS OF THE IPX AT PACKET TECHNOLOGIES Internet pioneer Paul Baran was an employee of Packet Technologies and provided a spark of invention at the initiation of the Integrated Packet Exchange (IPX) project. (StrataCom's IPX communication system is unrelated to Novell's IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange protocol.) The IPX was initially known as the PacketDAX, which was a play on words of Digital Access And Cross-connect System (or DACS). A rich collection of inventions were contained in the IPX, and many were provided by the other members of the development team. The names on the original three IPX patents are Paul Baran , Charles Corbalis , Brian Holden , Jim Marggraff , Jon Masatsugu , David Owen , and Pete Stonebridge . StrataCom's implementation of ATM was pre-standard and used 24 byte cells instead of standards-based ATM's 53 byte cells. However, many of concepts and details found in the ATM set of standards were derived directly from StrataCom's technology including the use of CRC-Based Framing on its links. THE IPX DEVELOPMENT The IPX's first use was as a 4-1 voice compression system. It implemented Voice-Activity-Detection (VAD) and ADPCM which together gave 4-1 compression allowing 96 telephone calls to be fit into the space of 24. The IPX was also used as an enterprise voice-data networking system as well as a global enterprise networking system. McGraw-Hill 's '' Data Communications '' Magazine included the IPX in its list of "20 Most Significant Communications Products of the Last 20 Years" in a 1992 edition. The Beta Test of the IPX was in Michigan Bell between Livonia , Plymouth , and Northville , 3 Suburb s of Detroit . The first customer shipment was to the May Company between Department Store s in San Diego and Los Angeles . The most significant early use of the IPX was as the backbone of the Covia/ United Airlines flight reservation system. It also was used in multiple corporate networks including those of Intel and Hewlett-Packard . The IPX's most successful use was as the first Frame Relay networking product. It formed the core of AT&T 's frame relay network. The BPX, which was produced in 1993 , increased the speed and sophistication of the frame relay offering. It also supported the 53 byte cells of the ATM standard instead the IPX's 24 byte cells. The original IPX product was also enhanced and re-introduced as the IGX. THE IPX PRODUCT The cards in the original IPX system were:
The cards in the second wave were
The card in the third wave was
STRATACOM MANAGEMENT AND LOCATIONS StrataCom's first CEO was Steve Campbell who later went to Packeteer . Dick Moley , who came from Hewlett-Packard , served as its CEO for most of its existence. The company was located in Cupertino on Bubb Rd., Campbell on Winchester near Hacienda, and San Jose at Meridian and Parkmoor. StrataCom went public in the fall of 1992 under the ticker symbol STRM. Three of its executives later formed SToRM Ventures. ACQUISITION BY CISCO SYSTEMS Cisco Systems acquired StrataCom in 1996 for US$ 4 Billion . The acquired employees formed the core of Cisco's Multi-Service Switching Business Unit and helped moved Cisco more into the carrier equipment space. EXTERNAL LINKS
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