Its not hard to demonstrate the close connections between Andiamo and
Cisco. The companys address, 375 East Tasman Drive, San Jose, is on the
Cisco campus (a fact that Ciscos security office was kind enough to
confirm).
Further, like other members of Andiamos executive team, Tom Edsall, who
is
listed on Andiamos Website as its cofounder and chief technology
officer,
can be reached through the Cisco switchboard. Edsalls voice mail even
instructs callers to send email to [email protected]."
Andiamo is working on a very large SAN switch, one with more than 100
ports, that will support both gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel,
according
to a source at a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley who claims to be
familiar with the operation. The device is not expected to ship for at
least
18 months, the source says.
According to another source at one of Ciscos competitors, the person in
overall charge of the Andiamo project is Mario Mazzola -- senior VP of
Cisco's Enterprise Line of Business and former
CEO and cofounder of Crescendo Communications, the LAN switch company
Cisco bought in September 1993.
(The Mazzola connection might explain the
name: Andiamo means lets go in Italian.)
The source says the new product will be based on a new version of
Ciscos
Catalyst LAN switch, currently under development, equipped with new line
cards that are being developed by Andiamo.
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