Anagran Names Niederman President and CEO

Anagran Inc., the flow-based routing company founded by Internet pioneer Lawrence Roberts, has named former Polycom executive and LongBoard founder Kim Niederman as its president and CEO. Roberts remains Anagran’s chairman.

“With the launch of our first product this August, and growing demand for our products worldwide, we are now in a position to focus on scaling the business,” said Roberts. “Kim is a proven leader with a successful track record of delivering revenue, and he has demonstrated a strong commitment to serving the complex demands of telecommunication service provider and enterprise customers. As CEO, he’ll be responsible for scaling our business, which will allow me to focus on continuing to advance the state of our flow-based technology and products.”

Prior to joining Anagran, Niederman was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Polycom, at which he nearly doubled revenue in three years, and implemented a new worldwide sales and channel strategy.

Niederman also founded and served as president and chief executive of LongBoard and Magellan Network Systems and has served in senior executive positions at Cisco Systems, FORE Systems, RadioLAN Inc. and Wang Laboratories.

As for Anagran, Roberts founded the company in 2004 after failing to succeed with flow-based routing – which aims to deliver the QoS required by real-time traffic like video and voice – at his previous venture, Caspian.

Roberts said Anagran, funded initially by Advanced Technology Ventures, Arrowpath Venture Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers a new and improved version of the flow router, which has more features yet costs 10-times less than the Caspian solution (the Anagran gear’s list price starts at $70,000) and about three-times less than similar-capacity routers on the market.

Roberts, who spoke with xchange this summer when Anagran’s first product came to market, said the time for the flow router is right given the new, better economics of memory since the year 2000.

Anagran Inc. www.anagran.com

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