Starent Networks was an

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and

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products company. It was headquartered in

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, USA, with major engineering facilities in

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and

Bangalore, India Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. Starent Networks was bought by

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

in 2009. Starent was a provider of infrastructure products that enabled mobile operators to deliver multimedia services such as video, Internet access, voice-over-IP, e-mail, mobile TV, photo sharing, and gaming to their subscribers. The products act as gateways that connect the

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to the

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. The gateways allow the service provider to have fine control over the end user experience of the high bandwidth/low latency applications, transaction accounting details and access control. On October 13, 2009,

announced a plan to purchase Starent for US$2.9 billion. On December 18, 2009,

completed acquisition of Starent Networks.

References

Starent Networks: Starry Road Ahead

External links

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