Zhone

Zhone Technologies, Inc. was a computer networking company founded in 1999.

Zhone Technologies, Inc.

Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1999
Defunct	2016
Fate	Merged with DASAN Network Solutions
Successor	DZS
Key people	Jeanette Symons Mory Ejabat Robert Dahl
Website	zhone.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2015-02-07)

In 2016 it merged with DASAN Network Solutions to form DZS.

History

Zhone Technologies was founded in September 1999 by former executives of Ascend Communications Jeanette Symons, Mory Ejabat and Robert Dahl.^[1] The company was backed by former Lucent Technologies executive Richard McGinn.^[2] It got investments from various venture capital businesses.^[3]

In 2000, New Enterprise Associates invested 55 million USD, CalPERS 50 million USD, Texas Pacific Group 150 million USD and KKR also 150 million USD. Some people from Ascend invested 50 million USD.^[4][5]

In 2000, Forbes magazine noted "direct competition with Zhone, for now, is scarce, or at least unorganized.".^[6] Zhone co-founder Symons died in a plane crash in February 2008.^[7]

Acquisitions^[8]

Logo	Company	Date	Sum (million USD)	Ref
	Premisys Communications Inc.	October 1999	248	[9][10]
	CAG Technologies	November 1999	8.8	[11]
	OptaPhones Systems	February 2000	2.2	[11]
	Roundview	February 2000	0.3	[11]
	Various product lines from Nortel	2001	Undisclosed	[12]
	Xybridge	February 2001	72.7
	Vpacket	July 2002	19.2
	Tellium	2003	180	[13][11][14]
	NEC Eluminant	2003	13.6	[15][11]
	Gluon Networks	2004	7	[16]
	Sorrento	2004	37	[17][18]
	Paradyne Networks, Inc.	July 2005	183.6	[19]