Editing GNU Zebra (section)

==History==
The idea for Zebra originally came from Kunihiro Ishiguro, after he realized the need for quality routing software. While working at an [[Internet Service Provider|ISP]] [[joint venture]] between [[British Telecom]] and [[Marubeni]], Ishiguro encountered [[venture capitalist]] Yoshinari Yoshikawa.

Yoshinari Yoshikawa shared Ishiguro's vision for a new routing engine and they combined resources to create the world's first routing engine software. The resulting entity, known as the Zebra Project, was started in 1996.

Ishiguro and Yoshikawa led the IP Infusion company and market a commercial version of Zebra, known as "ZebOS".<ref>
IP Infusion,
"IP Infusion was founded in 1999 by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa [...] Mr. Ishiguro’s background as the co-founder and developer of open source Zebra [...]"
http://www.ipinfusion.com/about
</ref> This ZebOS is being used in networking products, such as FortiOS and the Citrix NetScaler.<ref>
Citrix,
"The NetScaler routing suite is based on ZebOS, the commercial version of GNU Zebra.",
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/ns-system-10-map/ns-nw-iprouting-config-dyna-rout-con.html
</ref>

The official website announced that "Zebra has been decommissioned".

Since its last release (version 0.95) in 2005-09-08, development of Zebra stopped. A new project emerged as the unofficial successor of Zebra: [[Quagga (software)|Quagga]].