P-Cube
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| name = P-Cube Ltd.
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| fate = Acquired by Cisco
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| foundation = 1999
| founder = Yuval Shahar, Benny Shnaider, Giora Yaron
| defunct = 2004
| location_city = Sunnyvale, California
Tel Aviv, Israel
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| industry = Computer networking
| products = Service delivery platform
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| homepage = {{URL|www.p-cube.com}}
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P-Cube was a service delivery platform company based in the United States, with R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on August 23, 2004.{{cite news|last=Matsumoto|first=Craig|title=Cisco Plucks P-Cube for $200M|url=http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=58162|newspaper=Light Reading|date=August 23, 2004}} Cisco announced an end of sale of the lower end platforms of the product (now renamed the Service Control Engine or SCE) in October 2012.{{Cite web | url=http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps7045/ps6129/ps6133/ps6151/end_of_life_notice_c51-716191.pdf | title=End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco SCE 2000 Series Service Control Engine | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310210738/http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/service-exchange/sce-2000-series-service-control-engine/end_of_life_notice_c51-716191.pdf | archive-date=2016-03-10}} Further development of the SCE platform continues and replacements are available from Cisco Systems.[http://www.cisco.com/US/products/ps9591/index.html Unknown]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
History
P-Cube was founded in 1999 by three Israeli technology entrepreneurs. Yuval Shahar was the company's CEO and previously served as a development manager for VocalTec (Nasdaq:VOCL). Benny Shnaider, was previously a co-founder of Pentacom, which was also acquired by Cisco in April 2004 for $118 million. The third founder, who was P-Cube's President, Giora Yaron, was previously president of Indigo NV (Nasdaq: INDG), and general manager of Tower Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TSEM).{{cite news|title=P-Cube wants to save the ISPs|url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=481154|newspaper=Globes|date=2 April 2001}}
The idea for founding P-Cube came as a result of examining ways to improve Internet service providers' profitability. P-Cube offered them the ability to provide additional services for a fee, bringing them much needed dollars that help make them more profitable.{{Cite web |title=What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)? |url=https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/ISP-Internet-service-provider |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=WhatIs.com |language=en}}
P-Cube raised more than $65 million in venture capital funding from: Granite Global, Accel Partners, ComVentures, Evergreen, Sandoz, and Venture TDF Ventures.{{cite journal|title=P-Cube 3rd round brings in $35 million|journal=Israel Venture Capital Journal|date=July 2002|volume=2|issue=4|url=http://www.ivc-online.com/upload/archive/IVCJ/IVCJ-07-02.pdf}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}