<PAGE>   1
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 25, 2001

                                                           Registration No. 333-

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM S-8


                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                             VINA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

<TABLE>
<S>                                         <C>
              DELAWARE                                   77-0432782
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   (State or other jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
    incorporation or organization)

          39745 EUREKA DRIVE
          NEWARK, CALIFORNIA                               94560
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                 (Zip Code)

                            2000 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plans)

                                                          Copy to:
            STEVEN M. BAUMAN
President and Chief Executive Officer                  BLAIR W. WHITE
         VINA Technologies, Inc.                    Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
            39745 Eureka Drive                          P.O. Box 7880
             Newark, CA 94560                    San Francisco, CA 94120-7880
              (510) 492-0800                           (415) 983-1000
------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------
   (Name, address and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
</TABLE>

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE     AMOUNT TO BE        PROPOSED MAXIMUM         PROPOSED MAXIMUM          AMOUNT OF
        REGISTERED           REGISTERED (2)      OFFERING PRICE PER       AGGREGATE OFFERING     REGISTRATION FEE
                                                      SHARE(1)                 PRICE(1)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                        <C>                        <C>                    <C>                     <C>
Common Stock, par value    10,000,000 shares          $3.14065               $31,406,500             $7,851.63
$0.0001:  to be issued
under VINA Technologies,
Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive
Plan
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>

(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
     pursuant to Rule 457, based upon the average of the high and low prices as
     reported on the Nasdaq National Market on January 17, 2001.

(2)  Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement also covers any
     additional securities that may be offered or issued in connection with any
     stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or any other
<PAGE>   2

(3)  similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration, which
     results in an increase in the number of the Registrant's outstanding shares
     of Common Stock.

                                -----------------

     The Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance
with Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933.


                                       -2-
<PAGE>   3

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.*

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*

     * Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.

                                    PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.

     The following documents filed by Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement:

     (1) Registrant's prospectus dated August 10, 2000 filed pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 (in connection with Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-36398 (the "Form S-1
Registration Statement")), which contains Registrant's audited consolidated
financial statements for Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such
statements have been filed.

     (2) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in Registrant's
registration statement on Form 8-A, filed July 20, 2000.

     (3) Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed November 14, 2000.

     In addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, and other corporate agents in terms
sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons under certain circumstances for
liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). Registrant's Restated
Certificate of Incorporation and

                                      -3-
<PAGE>   4


Registrant's Bylaws provide for indemnification of the Registrant's directors,
officers, employees and other agents to the extent and under the circumstances
permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Registrant has also
entered into agreements with its directors and officers that will require the
Registrant, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities
that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers to
the fullest extent not prohibited by law.

     The Underwriting Agreement (Exhibit 1.1 to the Form S-1 Registration
Statement) provides for indemnification by the Underwriters of the Registrant,
its directors and officers, and by the Registrant of the Underwriters, for
certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Act, and affords
certain rights of contribution with respect thereto.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

     See Index to Exhibits attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9. Undertakings.

     (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
      made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

          (i)  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
      Securities Act of 1933;

          (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
     the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
     post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
     represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
     registration statement;

          (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
     distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
     material change to such information in the registration statement;

     provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if
     the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
     those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant
     pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
     1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
     to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
     therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
     to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
     termination of the offering.

                                      -4-


<PAGE>   5


     (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby further undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
the Registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.



                                      -5-
<PAGE>   6
                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Newark, State of California, on January 23, 2001.

                                       VINA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

                                       By:         /s/ STEVEN M. BAUMAN
                                           -------------------------------------
                                                      Steven M. Bauman
                                           President and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

     I, the undersigned, do hereby make, constitute and appoint Steven M. Bauman
and Stanley E. Kazmierczak, and each of them, my true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution, in any or
all of my offices and capacities with VINA Technologies, Inc. as shown below, to
execute for me and on my behalf one or more registration statements on Form S-8
(the "Registration Statements") and any and all amendments and supplements
thereto, including post-effective amendments, relating to the VINA Technologies,
Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and any other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and do hereby grant unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in
person, and ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or
their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power
of Attorney.


<PAGE>   7

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                 Name                                          Title                              Date
<S>                                              <C>                                         <C>
/s/ STEVEN M. BAUMAN                             Chief Executive Officer, President and      January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------      Director (Principal Executive Officer)
Steven M. Bauman

/s/ STANLEY E. KAZMIERCZAK                      Vice President, Finance and                  January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------     Administration and Chief Financial
Stanley E. Kazmierczak                          Officer (Principal Financial and
                                                Accounting Officer)

/s/ JEFFREY M. DRAZAN                           Director                                     January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Jeffrey M. Drazan

/s/ JOHN F. MALONE                              Director                                     January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
John F. Malone

/s/ FRANK J. MARSHALL                           Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Frank J. Marshall

/s/ PHILIP J. QUIGLEY                           Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Philip J. Quigley

/s/ JOSHUA W. SOSKE                             Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Joshua W. Soske

/s/ W. MICHAEL WEST                             Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
W. Michael West
</TABLE>


<PAGE>   8

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Number                          Exhibit
<S>       <C>
 4.1      VINA Technologies, Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 10.1.4 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
          Form S-1, No. 333-36398.
 5.1      Opinion regarding legality of securities to be offered.
23.1      Independent Auditors' Consent.
23.2      Consent of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1      Power of Attorney (see page 5).
</TABLE>
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1
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 25, 2001

                                                           Registration No. 333-

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                             VINA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE                                   77-0432782
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   (State or other jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
    incorporation or organization)

          39745 EUREKA DRIVE
          NEWARK, CALIFORNIA                               94560
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                 (Zip Code)

                            2000 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plans)

                                                          Copy to:
            STEVEN M. BAUMAN
President and Chief Executive Officer                  BLAIR W. WHITE
         VINA Technologies, Inc.                    Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
            39745 Eureka Drive                          P.O. Box 7880
             Newark, CA 94560                    San Francisco, CA 94120-7880
              (510) 492-0800                           (415) 983-1000
------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------
   (Name, address and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE     AMOUNT TO BE        PROPOSED MAXIMUM         PROPOSED MAXIMUM          AMOUNT OF
        REGISTERED           REGISTERED (2)      OFFERING PRICE PER       AGGREGATE OFFERING     REGISTRATION FEE
                                                      SHARE(1)                 PRICE(1)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, par value    10,000,000 shares          $3.14065               $31,406,500             $7,851.63
$0.0001:  to be issued
under VINA Technologies,
Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive
Plan
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
     pursuant to Rule 457, based upon the average of the high and low prices as
     reported on the Nasdaq National Market on January 17, 2001.

(2)  Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement also covers any
     additional securities that may be offered or issued in connection with any
     stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or any other
2

(3)  similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration, which
     results in an increase in the number of the Registrant's outstanding shares
     of Common Stock.

                                -----------------

     The Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance
with Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933.

                                       -2-
3

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.*

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*

     * Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.

                                    PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.

     The following documents filed by Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated by reference in this registration
statement:

     (1) Registrant's prospectus dated August 10, 2000 filed pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 (in connection with Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-36398 (the "Form S-1
Registration Statement")), which contains Registrant's audited consolidated
financial statements for Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such
statements have been filed.

     (2) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in Registrant's
registration statement on Form 8-A, filed July 20, 2000.

     (3) Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed November 14, 2000.

     In addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, and other corporate agents in terms
sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons under certain circumstances for
liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). Registrant's Restated
Certificate of Incorporation and

                                      -3-
4

Registrant's Bylaws provide for indemnification of the Registrant's directors,
officers, employees and other agents to the extent and under the circumstances
permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Registrant has also
entered into agreements with its directors and officers that will require the
Registrant, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities
that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers to
the fullest extent not prohibited by law.

     The Underwriting Agreement (Exhibit 1.1 to the Form S-1 Registration
Statement) provides for indemnification by the Underwriters of the Registrant,
its directors and officers, and by the Registrant of the Underwriters, for
certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Act, and affords
certain rights of contribution with respect thereto.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

     See Index to Exhibits attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9. Undertakings.

     (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
      made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

          (i)  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
      Securities Act of 1933;

          (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
     the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
     post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
     represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
     registration statement;

          (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
     distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
     material change to such information in the registration statement;

     provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if
     the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
     those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant
     pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
     1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
     to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
     therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
     to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
     termination of the offering.

                                      -4-
5

     (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby further undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
the Registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.

                                      -5-
6
                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Newark, State of California, on January 23, 2001.

                                       VINA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

                                       By:         /s/ STEVEN M. BAUMAN
                                           -------------------------------------
                                                      Steven M. Bauman
                                           President and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

     I, the undersigned, do hereby make, constitute and appoint Steven M. Bauman
and Stanley E. Kazmierczak, and each of them, my true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution, in any or
all of my offices and capacities with VINA Technologies, Inc. as shown below, to
execute for me and on my behalf one or more registration statements on Form S-8
(the "Registration Statements") and any and all amendments and supplements
thereto, including post-effective amendments, relating to the VINA Technologies,
Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and any other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and do hereby grant unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in
person, and ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or
their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power
of Attorney.
7

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated:
Name                                          Title                              Date
/s/ STEVEN M. BAUMAN                             Chief Executive Officer, President and      January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------      Director (Principal Executive Officer)
Steven M. Bauman

/s/ STANLEY E. KAZMIERCZAK                      Vice President, Finance and                  January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------     Administration and Chief Financial
Stanley E. Kazmierczak                          Officer (Principal Financial and
                                                Accounting Officer)

/s/ JEFFREY M. DRAZAN                           Director                                     January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Jeffrey M. Drazan

/s/ JOHN F. MALONE                              Director                                     January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
John F. Malone

/s/ FRANK J. MARSHALL                           Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Frank J. Marshall

/s/ PHILIP J. QUIGLEY                           Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Philip J. Quigley

/s/ JOSHUA W. SOSKE                             Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
Joshua W. Soske

/s/ W. MICHAEL WEST                             Director                                    January 23, 2001
-------------------------------------------
W. Michael West
8

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Number                          Exhibit
4.1      VINA Technologies, Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, incorporated by
          reference to Exhibit 10.1.4 to Registrant's Registration Statement on
          Form S-1, No. 333-36398.
 5.1      Opinion regarding legality of securities to be offered.
23.1      Independent Auditors' Consent.
23.2      Consent of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1      Power of Attorney (see page 5).