Company:Excelan

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Excelan Inc
TypePublic
IndustryComputer Networks
FateAcquired
SuccessorNovell
Founded1982 (1982)
FounderKanwal Rekhi, Inder Singh and Navindra Jain
Defunct1989 (1989)
Headquarters
San Jose, California
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Key people
Kanwal Rekhi, (CEO)
ProductsNetwork hardware
RevenueUnited 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