Company:Pathlight Technology
| Fate | acquired by ADIC |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | Said Rahmani |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Ithaca, New York |
Pathlight Technology was a pioneer in the field of Storage Area Networks. Based in Ithaca, NY, Pathlight was formed in 1994 as a spin-out from Ironics, a manufacturer of VME computer, IO and memory boards.
Pathlight was involved in the development of Serial Storage Architecture products, and in Fibre Channel products.
Pathlight merged with ADIC in 2001.[1]
History
Pathlight Technologies was founded by Said Rahmani in 1994.
Between 1997 and 2000, Rand Capital participated in four rounds of investments in Pathlight Technology.[2]
ADIC acquired Pathlight in January 2001 for a reported $265 million.[3] Said Rahmani became VP of R&D at ADIC after the acquisition.
Products
One of the significant products from Pathlight was the SAN Gateway, which provided multi-directional bridging between multiple Parallel SCSI ports and multiple Fibre Channel ports. IBM teamed with Pathlight to provide the SAN Data Gateway[4] (IBM Product 2108-G07 [5]) and SAN Data Gateway Router (IBM Product 2108-R03 [6]).
References
- ↑ Computer hardware
- ↑ "Exhibit 99". https://ir.randcapital.com/all-sec-filings/content/0000899797-01-000013/0002.htm?TB_iframe=true&height=auto&width=auto&preload=false.
- ↑ Maleval, Jean Jacques (2023-01-06). "History 2001: For $265 Million, ADIC Buys Pathlight" (in en-US). https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/09/history-2001-for-265-million-adic-buys-pathlight/.
- ↑ Find articles
- ↑ IBM support
- ↑ IBM Storage[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
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