The Indian Who Sold Two Startups To Cisco Is Now Taking Them On


The Indian Who Sold Two Startups To Cisco Is Now Taking Them On

Bangalore: Cross platform compatibility has always been a huge constraining factor in video conferencing. Blue Jean Network, a startup with Indian founders has developed technology and will prove Cisco's much- hyped vision of video in the enterprise is wrong.

Krish RamaKrishnan has always got great deals to the companies that he started or worked at. His first venture in 1994, Internet Junction developed internet gateway software for remote and central networks over popular computing platforms. The startup then got acquired by Cisco a year later for a sum of $5.5 Million. In 2005, as the CEO of TopSpin, he also helped the company get acquired by Cisco for $250 million. Krish has now played an important role in getting Blue Jean Network a multi million contract with Intercall.

Intercall that has been serving over three quarters of the Fortune 1000 companies in the field of audio conferencing, would take on the world of video conferencing with the help of Blue Jean Network’s MCU (Multi-Point Control Unit) Killer Technology.

“We say bring your own endpoint," says Krish RamaKrishnan the CEO of Blue Jean Network, in appraisal of the technology developed by his company. The MCU killer technology by enables users with various end-point video conferencing tools like to work together. Instead of competing with the video conference software by Google, Microsoft and Skype, Blue jean network creates a platform that supports interoperability of these tools. The features enabled in Blue Jean Network’s tool would be an obvious preference compared to expensive MCUs available in the market.  

Krish, who has always been immensely involved in the development of the MCU killer technology and has even coined the term himself, shows no intentions to sell the startup to Cisco this time around. The remark is quiet justified as Blue Jean Network is doing well on its own and has raised $23 Million in its first two rounds.