P-Cube

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P-Cube Ltd.
Type Subsidiary
Industry Computer networking
Founded1999
FounderYuval Shahar, Benny Shnaider, Giora Yaron
Defunct2004
FateAcquired by Cisco
Headquarters
Products Service delivery platform
Website www.p-cube.com

P-Cube was a service delivery platform company based in the United States, with R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on August 23, 2004. [1] Cisco announced an end of sale of the lower end platforms of the product (now renamed the Service Control Engine or SCE) in October 2012. [2] Further development of the SCE platform continues and replacements are available from Cisco Systems. [3]

History

P-Cube was founded in 1999 by three Israeli technology entrepreneurs. Yuval Shahar was the company's CEO and previously served as a development manager for VocalTec (Nasdaq:VOCL). Benny Shnaider, was previously a co-founder of Pentacom, which was also acquired by Cisco in April 2004 for $118 million. The third founder, who was P-Cube's President, Giora Yaron, was previously president of Indigo NV (Nasdaq: INDG), and general manager of Tower Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TSEM). [4]

The idea for founding P-Cube came as a result of examining ways to improve Internet service providers' profitability. P-Cube offered them the ability to provide additional services for a fee, bringing them much needed dollars that help make them more profitable. [5]

P-Cube raised more than $65 million in venture capital funding from: Granite Global, Accel Partners, ComVentures, Evergreen, Sandoz, and Venture TDF Ventures. [6]

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References

  1. Matsumoto, Craig (August 23, 2004). "Cisco Plucks P-Cube for $200M". Light Reading.
  2. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps7045/ps6129/ps6133/ps6151/end_of_life_notice_c51-716191.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. http://www.cisco.com/US/products/ps9591/index.html%5B%5D
  4. "P-Cube wants to save the ISPs". Globes. 2 April 2001.
  5. "What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?". WhatIs.com. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  6. "P-Cube 3rd round brings in $35 million" (PDF). Israel Venture Capital Journal. 2 (4). July 2002.[ permanent dead link ]