Navarro Networks

{{Infobox company

| name = Navarro Networks, Inc.

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| type = Private

| fate = Acquired by Cisco Systems

| founder = Mark Bluhm

| founded = {{start date and age|2000|03}} in Plano, Texas, United States

| defunct = {{end date and age|2002|05}}

| industry = Computer networking

| num_employees = 25

| website= {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124165400/http://www.navarronetworks.com/|date=January 24, 2001|title=navarronetworks.com}}

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Navarro Networks, Inc., was a developer of Ethernet-based ASIC components based in Plano, Texas, in the United States. They produced a network processor for Ethernet and other applications.{{Cite web|work=My-ESM|date=September 27, 2007|title=Network processor entrants find tough sledding|url=http://www.my-esm.com/story/OEG20020429S0051|access-date=April 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927070044/http://www.my-esm.com/story/OEG20020429S0051|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}

Navarro Networks was founded in 2000. Their CEO was Mark Bluhm, who was formerly a vice president at Cyrix. A group of nine employees left the Cyrix division of Via on March 21, 2000 to staff the company.{{cite journal | last=Hesseldahl | first=Arik | date=March 27, 2000 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/209741934/ | title=VIA to spin off Cyrix; engineers depart | work=Electronic News | publisher=Reed Business Information | volume=46 | issue=13 | page=4 | via=ProQuest}} The employee walkout had occurred just a day after Via announced that they would be spinning off the Cyrix division as a separate company.{{cite web | last=Magee | first=Mike | date=March 22, 2000 | url=https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/22/cyrix_folk_walk_out_after/ | title=Cyrix folk walk out after Via revelation | work=The Register | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126031648/https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/22/cyrix_folk_walk_out_after/ | archivedate=January 26, 2021}}

Cisco Systems announced their intent to acquire Navarro Networks in May 1, 2002; on the same day, Cisco also announced their bid to acquire Hammerhead Networks.{{cite journal | last=Howe | first=Peter J. | date=May 2, 2002 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/405457549/ | title=Cisco Offers $173M for Billerica Start-up; Malborough Software Unit Sold by Lucent to Los Angeles Firm | work=Boston Globe | page=E1 | via=ProQuest}} The acquisition was completed in June that year, with Cisco dealing Navarro a stock swap worth $85 million. Most of the 25 employees of Navarro joined the Internet Systems Business Unit to enhance Cisco's internal ASIC capability in Ethernet switching platforms.{{cite journal | last=Sullivan | first=John | date=June 2002 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225524219/ | title=Cisco acquisitions strengthen ethernet IP aggregation units | work=Boardwatch | publisher=Penton Media | volume=16 | issue=6 | page=12 | via=ProQuest}}{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=June 27, 2002 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/201582683/ | title=Cisco Completes Second Acquisition This Week | work=InternetWeek | publisher=CMP Media | via=ProQuest}}