{"id":6245,"date":"2008-01-09T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ranch-networks-gone.html"},"modified":"2008-01-09T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:43:39","slug":"ranch-networks-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/sip\/ranch-networks-gone.html","title":{"rendered":"Ranch Networks Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been out to visit Ranch Networks a few times in the past few years and my first visit was interesting as the company didn’t seem 100% sure of what direcion to take their products in. They had talented engineers but the strategy wasn’t clear to me or them.<\/p>\n

A few years later the company switched their strategy to providing security for the Asterisk space. This seemed to me like a can’t miss market. But frankly I haven’t been in very close touch with company execs for a while. <\/p>\n

I received an e-mail today from a past team member who asked me if the campany was gone because their website <\/a>is dead. I queried my internal database and it does seem like their phone numbers have been dead for a number of months.<\/p>\n

I haven’t heard a single negative thing about the company so this news comes as a bit of a surpise.<\/p>\n

If you have additional information feel free to add to this post.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Here are some thoughts from a reliable, anonymous source:<\/p>\n

Ranch had their funding pulled and is basically out of businesses.  They closed their doors and let everyone go about a year ago. They spent their time chasing one large deal (3Com) who wanted to use any available financial resources on their recent acquisitions (so I was told). Ram Ayyakad, their CEO has been trying to sell the technology, but can’t seem to gain much interest.  They still believe they have something that is valuable.<\/em>
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