After stints at two companies, he started his own in 1997. When he sold that company to Cisco just two years later for US $ 128 million, he met David Weng, who was then working for Cisco.
待了兩家公司後，1997 年吳方自行創業，兩年後公司以 1 億 2800 萬美元被網路設備大廠思科購併，也認識了當時同在思科服務的翁嘉盛。