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RGB Networks planning for 2008 IPO

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Last time I interviewed Jef Graham, he was CEO of Peribit, a communications equipment company. I wrote a column item about the startup but mentioned an analyst opinion that a competitor called Expand Networks was beating Peribit in the WAN optimization market. That turned out to be wrong. Peribit was sold to Juniper Networks in 2005 for $308 million while Expand is still privately held.

This time around, I'm going to let Graham do the talking. He's now the CEO of RGB Networks, a video processing and ad insertion company backed with $37 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel Partners and others. I caught up with him at Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.'s IP Video conference held at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel today. Watch him discuss his company's revenue projections and IPO plans on the video below:

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