P-Cube was a

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company based in the

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, with R&D facilities in

Herzliya Herzliya ( ; he, הֶרְצְלִיָּה ; ar, هرتسليا, Hirtsiliyā) is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it h ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. It was acquired by

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on 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. Further development of the SCE platform continues and replacements are available from Cisco Systems.

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 VocalTec Communications Inc. is an Israeli telecom equipment provider. The company was founded in 1985 by Alon Cohen and Lior Haramaty, who patented the first Voice over IP audio transceiver. VocalTec has supplied major customers such as Deuts ...

(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 Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is an Israeli company that manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, Silicon Photonics, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power ...

(Nasdaq: TSEM). The idea for founding P-Cube came as a result of examining ways to improve

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s' 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. P-Cube raised more than $65 million in venture capital funding from: Granite Global, Accel Partners, ComVentures, Evergreen, Sandoz, and Venture TDF Ventures.{{Dead link, date=November 2018 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes

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