NetSpeed

{{Short description|American broadband internet access company}}

{{distinguish|GoNetSpeed}}

{{Infobox Company

| type = Division

| foundation = United States

| fate = Acquired by Cisco Systems

| founder = John McHale

| location = United States

| industry = Computer networking

| parent = Cisco Systems

}}

NetSpeed was a broadband Internet access company based in the United States.[http://www.networkworld.com/news/netspeed.html NetSpeed profile] Network World, 12/29/97 It was acquired by Cisco Systems on March 10, 1998.[http://www.networkworld.com/news/0310netspeed.html Cisco to buy DSL vendor NetSpeed] Network World, 3/10/98[http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/acquisition/1998.html Acquisitions 1998] Cisco.com NetSpeed's DSL products were the first service provider and customer-premises DSL equipment to be production deployed at a major U.S. service provider, US West.

The founder of NetSpeed, John McHale, also started NetWorth, Inc., a manufacturer of 10BASE-T Ethernet equipment in 1989. The company was acquired by Compaq in 1994. After NetSpeed, Inc., John McHale went on to found NetPliance, TippingPoint, and BreakingPoint Systems. Key employees of NetSpeed also went on to found other companies.

Kip McClanahan and Kenny VanZant went on to found BroadJump after the Cisco acquisition in 1998. Brendon Mills, Paul Carew, Ron Lutz and Steve Raich went on to found General Bandwidth (now GenBand, Inc), in 1999. Cliff Hall and Bob Locklear were founding members of Surgient Networks in 2000 and Jim Johnson founded UControl in 2005.