Company:Excelan
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer Networks |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Novell |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Kanwal Rekhi, Inder Singh and Navindra Jain |
| Defunct | 1989 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California , |
Key people | Kanwal Rekhi, (CEO) |
| Products | Network hardware |
| Revenue | United States dollar 65,860,000 (1988) |
| United States dollar 5,459,000 (1988) |
Excelan was a computer networking company founded in 1982 by Kanwal Rekhi, Inder Singh and Navindra Jain.[1] Excelan was a manufacturer of smart Ethernet cards, until the company merged with, and was acquired by Novell in 1989.[2] The company offered a line of Ethernet "front end processor" boards for Multibus, VMEbus, Q-Bus, Unibus, and IBM AT Bus systems. The cards were equipped with their own processor and memory, and ran TCP/IP protocol software that was downloaded onto the cards from the host system. Excelan offered software like LAN Workplace that integrated the cards into a variety of operating system environments, including many flavors of UNIX, RSX-11, VMS, and DOS. The hardware and software were sold under the EXOS brand. In 1987, Excelan also acquired Kinetics, a small networking company that manufactured and sold a variety of Ethernet networking products for Apple Macintosh environments, most notably an AppleTalk-to-Ethernet gateway called the FastPath.
Excelan also manufactured and sold Ethernet network analyzer products, the first being the Excelan Nutcracker, followed later by the Excelan LANalyzer.[3]
See also
- Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS
References
- ↑ "Sponsors, Communities, and Standards: Ethernet vs. Token Ring in the Local Area Networking Business". December 2003. Archived from the original on 2012-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20120618164900/http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/kenney/articles_files/Sponsors,%20Communities,%20and%20Standards:%20Ethernet%20vs.%20Token%20Ring%20in%20the%20Local%20Area%20Networking%20Business.pdf.
- ↑ "Excelan to Be Acquired: Excelan Inc. said..." (in en-US). 1989-03-27. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-27-fi-475-story.html.
- ↑ "Novell and Excelan to Merge". The New York Times. 24 March 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/24/business/novell-and-excelan-to-merge.html. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
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