DZS Inc. is a provider of fiber access and optical telecommunications networking and cloud software technology. The company was founded in 1999. It is headquartered in Plano . DZS is ISO 9001:2008 certified in the manufacture and service of telecommunications equipment.
6-479: DZS was founded as Zhone Technologies in September 1999 by former executives of Ascend Communications Jeanette Symons, Mory Ejabat and Robert Dahl. In July 2005, Zhone acquired Paradyne Networks, Inc. for US$ 183.6 million. In 2016 Zhone Technologies merged with DASAN Network Solutions to form DASAN Zhone Solutions Inc. (DZSI) In August 2020, Charlie Vogt was named CEO and DASAN Zhone became DZS. DZS has acquired
12-485: A Service Control Point technology critical to the convergence of voice and data networks that Ascend valued. The server business was sold off to private equity investors within months, following the Lucent deal. It now operates as Stratus Technologies . The company was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999. The $ 24 billion merger was the largest technology merger in history up to that time. Ascend's stock traded under
18-450: The MAX TNT , which allowed for a DS3 of dialup lines to be terminated in a few rack units. Customers such as AOL , Earthlink , Demon Internet , and UUnet purchased over two million dialup ports worth of MAX TNT access servers during the dialup days of the internet. Many companies still use MAX TNT for dialup (look for TNT in dialup hostnames). In the mid-1990s, the company was one of
24-586: The B-STDX9000 frame relay switch and the CBX-500 and GX-550 ATM switches. The B-STDX and CBX/GX lines were the workhorses of most RBOC Frame Relay and ATM networks throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. In February 1997, Ascend released the DSLPipe series. In August 1998, Ascend bought Stratus Computers for $ 822 million in stock. Stratus was primarily a maker of fault-tolerant computer systems but it owned
30-552: The following companies since 2020: Ascend Communications Ascend Communications, Inc. was an Alameda, California -based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999. Ascend Communications was founded in 1988 and taken public in 1994. Initial investors included Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers (KPCB); Greylock Partners ; and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high-density dialup installations, most notably
36-439: The leading vendors of ISDN modems and concentrators. Ascend Communications also acquired several companies. In 1996, it acquired NetStar, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based publicly traded manufacturer of ultra-high-performance, switched backplane, backbone routers capable 16 Gbit/s throughput. In 1997, Ascend acquired Cascade Communications . Cascade designed and manufactured high-density carrier packet switches, including
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