industry telecommunications equipment founded 1996 headquarters san jose california key people ceo georges antoun website www.ericsson.com redback networks was a telecommunications equipment company specializing in hardware and software used by isps to manage broadband services . in december 2006 ericsson and redback announced they had signed a definitive agreement under which ericsson would acquire redback . the transaction was completed in 2007 and redback networks is fully integrated in ericsson . history edit redback networks was founded in august 1996 by gaurav garg and asher waldfogel and traded on nasdaq under the symbol rbak . it was acquired by ericsson in january 2007 . 1 1996 august redback creation san jose ca usa . 1998 sms 1800 first bras bng . 1999 march sms 500 . 1999 november redback networks acquires siara systems smartedge 800 1200 platform for 4.3 billion . 2 2000 may sms 10000 . 2000 july smartedge 800 optical node sonet sdh switch . 2000 august redback networks acquires abatis systems . 3 2001 october smartedge 800 router with ppa1 16 cores 2.5 gbits network processor . 2002 november sms 10000sl streamliner . 2003 june smartedge service gateway bras bng . 2003 june smartedge 400 . 2005 june smartedge ethernet aggregation new ppa2 32 cores 10 gbits network processor . 2007 january redback becomes a subsidiary of ericsson . 2007 october smartedge 1200 new xcrp4 processor card new ppa3 48 cores 20 gbits network processor . 2008 q4 smartedge ethernet aggregation 2009 q1 smartmetro sm480 l2 ethernet only version of the smartedge router . 2010 q1 smartedge 600 and smartmetro sm240 . 2010 january redback is fully integrated in ericsson . the smartedge router is integrated in the ericsson ip product line . 2010 q3 smartedge 1200h high power version of the se1200 . 2011 1h smartedge platforms support ericsson s 3gpp evolved packet core epc . 2015 q3 smartedge 600 external links edit official website references edit ericsson press release . wirbel loring . redback pays 4.3 b for company still in prototype stage . ee times . retrieved 12 november 2014 . company news ; redback networks agrees to acquire abatis systems . new york times . retrieved 8 october 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title redback networks & oldid 724851692 categories networking companies of the united statescompanies formerly listed on nasdaqcompanies based in san jose californiatelecommunications equipment vendors navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aislatvie uportugu ssvenska edit links this page was last modified on 11 june 2016 at 23 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view