Ripcord Networks
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Ripcord Networks is a computer software technology company. Their worldwide headquarters is in San Jose, California in the United States. The company is developing Ripcord Canopy, a very secure, perhaps the most secure, Operating System for VoIP telephones and converged devices. While product information on the company web site is still scarce, media sources are pointing to connections between Ripcord and Phil Zimmermann's ZRTP Project as well as other links to various technologies such as ZeroConf.
Ripcord Networks was founded in 2003 and has a notable board of directors for a company kept largely undercover. Ripcord's chairman is Dr. Gil Amelio, the former CEO of Apple Computer, Rockwell International, and National Semiconductor. Other board members include Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer's co-founder; Ellen Hancock, the former CEO of Exodus Communications, former CTO of Apple Computer, and former EVP of IBM; also on the board is Ret. Col. Mike Connor, the former COO of Cable & Wireless USA, COO of Exodus Communications, EVP of ADP, and VP of research and development at Apple Computer. Ripcord's founder and CEO, Alex Fielding, is a noted expert in the areas of network technology and architecture and has held various posts at Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, DEC, Cadence, Exodus, TVDC, and co-founded Woz.com with Steve Wozniak.
