James M. Lowrie

Converged Access, Inc. provides WAN and VoIP optimization solutions. Its solutions are available from Converged Access channel partners and OEM partners. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Littleton, MA.

Part of Meriton Networks, Inc., Photuris, Inc. is a company that manufactures and supplies optical services equipment. The company is based in Piscataway, NJ. The company was founded by Jefferson L. Wagener, Ashish Vengsarkar, Hemant Ratubhai Kanakia. Photuris was acquired by Mahi Networks, Inc. on 2004-06-14.

Astral Point, based in Chelmsford, MA, is a front-runner in next-general SONET metro optical systems. Astral Point has achieved numerous breakthroughs in optical and aggregation technologies. Across its product line, Astral Point offers densities up to seven times better than the nearest competitor, scalability up to eight times better, along with DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) capabilities and advanced data aggregation technologies.

ASCEND, Inc. provides information technology services. It offers network design, software development, systems engineering, and other related services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Cisco Systems Ltd. manufactures routers and switches. It supplies remote access servers, IP telephony and data storage network equipment, optical networking components, and network security products. The company is headquartered in Feltham, UK

Matisse Networks' EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Swtich is revolutionizing optical networking by improving efficiency up to 50% over circuit-oriented networks. EtherBurst simplifies the network by reducing equipment requirements and operational expenses, resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership of any optical network. The EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch is the most efficient way to scale Carrier Ethernet networks. The EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch provides zero-touch optical networking that accelerates service velocity by overcoming the inefficiencies and complexities of circuit-oriented optical transport networks. EtherBurst is the first commercially available Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch based upon Ring OBS technology. Matisse has been awarded numerous patents and industry recognition awards for its breakthrough research and development in the field of optical networking. Matisse Networks is a privately held company located in Mountian View, CA.

Intune Networks Ltd. designs and develops optical switching and transport products for telecommunications market. It offers iVX8000 system, a protocol, application, and service agnostic network platform for next generation carrier networks; and transforming mobile backhaul networks. The company also offers secure private cloud networks, distributed data centers, software defined networks, and hosted video networks for carriers. Intune Networks was founded by John Dunne and Thomas Farrell in 1999 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.