Caspian Networks named Brad Wurtz as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. Wurtz previously was co-founder and general partner of Ironweed Capital, a seed investment partnership based in Palo Alto. Before that, Wirtz is credited with establishing and running Cisco’s carrier packet voice business unit as vice president and general manager in 2000. He had previously served as vice president and general manager of Cisco’s multiservice switching business (formerly Stratacom), and led Cisco’s acquisitions of Sentient and Transmedia. He also led the development and launch of Cisco’s GSR 12000-series service provider router family.
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- In April 2003, Caspian Networks announced the general availability of its Apeiro flow-based router designed for delivering “ATM-equivalent�? QoS using IP. Caspian Networks’ core innovation is to examine each packet entering the router, identify flows, and then store to memory the flow’s relevant routing information as well as its QoS, loss, delay and jitter characteristics. Subsequent packets in the flow are switched based on the “flow state�? data already in memory. By tracking potentially tens of millions of microflows per 10 Gbps interface per second in hardware, Caspian said its Apeiro platform provides deterministic QoS for premium IP traffic that is equivalent to ATM. Caspian Networks said its ASIC-driven platform is capable of handling 500,000+ flow set-ups per second, scaling far beyond the circuit set-up rates typical of ATM and MPLS. The Apeiro platform interoperates with and supports standard network protocols such as BGP, IS-IS, IPv6, and MPLS. The Caspian platform is in lab trials with a number of RBOCs, IXCs and international PTTs.