Cabletron was once New Hampshire's largest private employer and a symbol of the success of high technology in the state. But the company fell on hard times in the late 1990's, and was forced to reorganize. This week the Cabletron name ceased to exist, and the company began a new life as three smaller enterprises: Enterasys Networks, Riverstone Networks and Aprisma Management Technologies. Senior analyst Joel Conover tracks high-tech companies, and particularly Enterasys, for current analysis, for a research firm based in Sterling, Virginia. Conover told NHPR's David Darman Cabletron realized it had gotten too big for its own good.
