Cheng Wu is a successful serial entrepreneur and a well-respected technologist, having founded and led visionary technology companies in a range of industries.
Cheng most recently founded Acetti Software (formerly APL Software), a company dedicated to advocating new computing architectures to optimize application performance. Before founding Acetti Software, he founded Azuki Systems, developer of an adaptive video streaming and digital rights management platform, which was acquired by Ericsson in 2014. Prior to that, he founded and was executive chairman at Acopia, a leader in high-performance intelligent file virtualization solutions that was acquired by F5 Networks in 2007.
Cheng was group vice president and general manager of Cisco Systems’ Content and Multiservice Edge Group, following Cisco’s acquisition of Arrowpoint Communications, where he was founder and CEO. Arrowpoint was one of the first web content delivery systems and completed a successful IPO prior to being acquired by Cisco for $5.7 billion.
The first company Cheng founded and led was Arris Networks, a developer of high-density Internet access solutions, which was acquired by Cascade Communications.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Cheng Wu and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications Inc. or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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