AccessLan, the Silicon Valley pioneer of PacketLoop, is a leading provider of business-focused and carrier-class access equipment for Integrated Communications Providers (ICPs). PacketLoop delivers the next generation of packet-based, local loop solutions, providing variable rate, multi-service intelligent infrastructure with Internet Scaling Architecture (ISA) enabling the industry’s first Quality-of-Service (QoS) for Internet Protocol (IP) management. It is ideally suited to delivery of packet-based services including: Voice-over-DSL (VoDSL), Internet access; Frame Relay; Virtual Private Network (VPN) and application hosting such as, streaming content and differentiated access services.

The PacketLoop product portfolio comprises IP edge access devices to the optical core; third generation intelligent DSLAMs (i-SLAMs) with MPLS and IP QoS capabilities for Central Office or Multi-Tenant Unit (MTU)/Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) markets; broadband mux/switches; feature rich CPE devices; and the powerful PacketLoop Network Management System.

AccessLan was founded in January 1997, by a team of network industry veterans who came from companies including Bay Networks, Hughes Network Systems, Alcatel/DSC, and Broadband Technologies. Since its founding, the company has raised $80 million from leading venture capital firms and strategic partners, including Accel Partners, Berkeley International Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Intel, NIF Ventures, Sequoia Capital, The Ignite Group, Tudor Private Equity Fund and BancBoston. The company's platform was production-ready in October 1998 and is currently being deployed nationally by major CLECs and ISPs.