It offered high-speed network products for the scientific computing market as well as some commercial companies. It was founded in 1986 by James N. Perdue (formerly of NASA, Ames Research Center), Drew Berding, and Wes Meador (of Control Data Corporation) to provide higher speed connectivity and networking for supercomputers and their peripherals and workstations. At the time, the only other companies offering high speed networking and connectivity for the supercomputer and high-end workstation market was Network Systems Corporation (NSC) and  Computer Network Technology Corporation (CNT).
This company emerged in 1986 to address the need for faster networking solutions for supercomputers and their peripherals. They aimed to provide high-speed connectivity for these systems, a niche market at the time dominated by companies like NSC and CNT.