broadband Internet access
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company based in the
United States
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. It was acquired by
Cisco Systems
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on March 10, 1998.Acquisitions 1998 Cisco.com NetSpeed's DSL products were the first service provider and customer-premises DSL equipment to be production deployed at a major U.S. service provider, US West.
The founder of NetSpeed, John McHale, also started
NetWorth
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, Inc., a manufacturer of
10BASE-T
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Ethernet equipment in 1989. The company was acquired by Compaq in 1994. After NetSpeed, Inc., John McHale went on to found NetPliance,
TippingPoint
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, and BreakingPoint Systems. Key employees of NetSpeed also went on to found other companies.
Kip McClanahan and Kenny VanZant went on to found BroadJump after the Cisco acquisition in 1998. Brendon Mills, Paul Carew, Ron Lutz and Steve Raich went on to found General Bandwidth (now GenBand, Inc), in 1999. Cliff Hall and Bob Locklear were founding members of Surgient Networks in 2000 and Jim Johnson founded UControl in 2005.