OnStream Networks was a Santa Clara, California-based supplier of Circuit Emulation Service (CES) based Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) solutions. Santa Clara, founded in 1852, is a city located in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ... Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM for short, is a cell relay network protocol which encodes data traffic into small fixed sized (53 byte; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) cells instead of variable sized packets as in packet-switched networks (such as the Internet Protocol or...

They used the AAL1gator designed by Network Synthesis and acquired by Integrated Telecom Technology (later acquired by PMC-Sierra) to implement their CES solution. The AAL1gator was a semiconductor device which became a run-away success and played a role in the acquisition of four companies. ... Integrated Telecom Technology, Inc. ... PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ: PMCS) was originally founded in 1984 as Sierra Semiconductor (San Jose, California, USA). ...

Their office was on Octavius Drive in Santa Clara, California. Jim Mongiello was the President and CEO. Mitri Halabi was the V.P. of Engineering, and Jim Jacobson was a lead engineer. Santa Clara, founded in 1852, is a city located in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ...

OnStream was acquired by 3Com, also of Santa Clara, in 1996 for $254M. 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...