Between December 2002 and May 2003, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Bechtolsheim filed trademark applications seeking to protect the following words: "Streamhub," "Streamswitch," "Streamstar," "Streamstor," "Streamcast," and "Netblade." Some in the Valley insisted that there was some correlation between those names and some kind of newfangled video server device that Bechtolsheim was working on -- presumably for his employer, Cisco.
Enter Kealia.
Kealia's existence -- and the fact that we reached Bechtolsheim there during the work week -- lends some credibility to the rumor that he's building a distributed, high-availability video server of some sort. The question remains: Who's Bechtolsheim working for and what, if anything, does Cisco have to do with it?
Is it possible that Cisco is funding another Andiamo-like dummy company as a way of retaining employees with big stock-option payouts? (See Cisco's Creative Andiamo Options.) Or is Bechtolsheim just lending his expertise to another networking startup that doesn't compete with Cisco?
The trail runs a bit cold here, but, according to the California Secretary of State's office [ed. note: now headed, we believe, by Jean-Claude Van Damme], Kealia's articles of incorporation do list another curious name as the company's president: David Cheriton.
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