Riverstone Networks, Inc. provides carrier Ethernet infrastructure solutions for business and residential communications services. It designs and sells routers to service providers, including incumbent operators, inter-exchange operators, cable operators, and alternative operators; and municipalities to build Ethernet-based metro and regional networks, and provide businesses and consumers with Internet access, virtual private networks, and video and voice over Internet protocol services. The company’s portfolio of Ethernet routers consist of the Riverstone 15000, RS, and ES product lines. Its routers deliver the reliability that enables carriers to meet the triple play: voice, video, and data service requirements of their customers. The company allows carriers to offer new services over existing networks enabling them to evolve to a next generation Ethernet infrastructure. It markets and sells its products through its direct sales force, as well as through strategic solutions alliances, value-added resellers, and original equipment manufacturers principally in the United States, Europe, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. The company has strategic alliances primarily with Lucent Technologies; Marconi Corporation plc; and Sonus Networks, Inc. Riverstone was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. On February 7, 2006, Riverstone Networks, Inc filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The plan was later approved as Chapter 11 liquidation on February 7, 2006.