Meet the residents of Start-up City

Start-up City, the row of booths at Interop dedicated to newcomers in the networking industry, is featuring some fresh-faced and veteran residents this year. Web-based service desk vendor Blue Spinner is so new that one can’t easily find their Web page through a Google search and optical burst swithcing vendor Matisse Netwroks is among the more experienced start-ups being founded in September 2003. Others like porttracker and FastSoft on the other hand seem to fall squarely into the start-up definition. Porttracker is a U.K. company founded in the past 18 months that can determine which devices are connected to the network for security and troubleshooting purposes. FastSoft accelerates video and large design files across long distances by using a single-sided appliance model. Stay tuned for more on the residents of Interop’s Start-up City.