http://www.herring.com/mag/issue33/atm.html
Cisco to Buy Granite Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. plans to acquire Granite Systems, Inc. for its
Gigabit Ethernet technology. Cisco plans to use the systems to
offer customers a wider choice of backbone networks. Multilayer
switching and Gigabit Ethernet provide wider bandwidth for
multimedia, intranets, groupware, and the Internet. Granite will
become part of the Systems Workgroup business unit.