Submitted by Reader (not verified) on Sun, 08/28/2005 - 22:02.
Being one of the co-founders of PacketFront i just want to clarify a few things that seem to be slightly confusing.
PacketFront has NOT burned through nearly a billion dollars in VC capital. What acohill is describing is what B2 Broadband, who is a leading broadband provider in Sweden, did together with Cisco during the dot-com bubble days. In 2001 a number of key persons from Engineering and Operations within B2 Broadband jumped and founded PacketFront together with some of the key account representatives from Cisco. What we have done is to take the experience from the journey with B2 Broadband and design and develop a completely new solution for the network infrastructure that is purpouse built for broadband networks: Triple Play, Automation, Control&Provisioning.
So, the founder team have great know-how and a lot of experience from the provider side of business coupled with the know-how and experience from the leading technology vendors (Cisco, Lucent, Ericsson etc) and we continue to combine this knowledge as we grow our company.
But you are right in the fact that we are the leader.
B2 Broadband/PacketFront confusion
Being one of the co-founders of PacketFront i just want to clarify a few things that seem to be slightly confusing.
PacketFront has NOT burned through nearly a billion dollars in VC capital. What acohill is describing is what B2 Broadband, who is a leading broadband provider in Sweden, did together with Cisco during the dot-com bubble days. In 2001 a number of key persons from Engineering and Operations within B2 Broadband jumped and founded PacketFront together with some of the key account representatives from Cisco. What we have done is to take the experience from the journey with B2 Broadband and design and develop a completely new solution for the network infrastructure that is purpouse built for broadband networks: Triple Play, Automation, Control&Provisioning.
So, the founder team have great know-how and a lot of experience from the provider side of business coupled with the know-how and experience from the leading technology vendors (Cisco, Lucent, Ericsson etc) and we continue to combine this knowledge as we grow our company.
But you are right in the fact that we are the leader.
Richard Jansson