[revised 9/1/2005] A company called B2 Broadband burned through nearly a billion dollars of VC money during the dot-com bubble. One of the original B2 Broadband investors was Cisco, which walked away from company. The money was spent in large part on a cutting edge community broadband project in Sweden, where the company learned that network equipment designed for corporate networks (e.g. everything Cisco makes) does not work well in a community environment. Which is why you don't want institutional IT managers in charge of community tech projects, by the way.
Out of that experience a group of engineers and managers created PacketFront and in my opinion, the company is now set to become a leading provider.
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[revised 9/1/2005] A company called B2 Broadband burned through nearly a billion dollars of VC money during the dot-com bubble. One of the original B2 Broadband investors was Cisco, which walked away from company. The money was spent in large part on a cutting edge community broadband project in Sweden, where the company learned that network equipment designed for corporate networks (e.g. everything Cisco makes) does not work well in a community environment. Which is why you don't want institutional IT managers in charge of community tech projects, by the way.
Out of that experience a group of engineers and managers created PacketFront and in my opinion, the company is now set to become a leading provider.