One of the founders of the Internet has launched a router startup that can differentiate between distinct types of Internet traffic and speed data flow. Anagran Inc., founded by Internet pioneer Larry Roberts, has raised $28 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ArrowPath Venture Partners, Argon Venture Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures to create Anagran FR-1000 Flow Routers. The routers, which direct packets of information traveling the Internet, can differentiate between packet data for e-mails and files and streaming data for videos and voice conversations. The hope is such routers can help prevent jumpy video and dropped bits of voice conversation as well as boost the efficiency of all data traveling over the Web. If that hope proves founded, it's likely Cisco Systems Inc. may not just have found a new competitor, but perhaps an acquisition target as well. —Stacey Higginbotham
See Aug. 6 story on News.com
Tags: Cisco, vc, venture+capital, web 2.0
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