M. Ransom

BellSouth LLC operates as a telecommunications holding company. It provides wire line communication services including local exchange, network access, intra local access, and internet services. The firm also offers print and online directory advertising. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

RadiSys Corp. engages in the provision of embedded wireless infrastructure solutions for telecom, aerospace, defense and public safety applications. It offers FlowEngine, MediaEngine, MobilityEngine, DCEngine and embedded products. The company was founded by Glenford J. Myers, David L. Budde and Robert Arthur Patterson on March 18, 1987 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, OR.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Alcatel-Lucent Holdings, Inc. develops and builds communications networks. It provides equipment, software, and related network services for carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers. The company supplies broadband Internet access products and digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for residential and small business end-users. It is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Turin Networks, Inc. provides metro transport and switching solutions for wireline, wireless, MSO and private networks. The company offers network management, metro access and ethernet aggregation. It has offices in Dallas and Boston. Turin Networks was founded by Steve West and John Webley in October, 1999 and is headquartered in Petaluma, CA

Teknovus, Inc. develops and delivers chipsets. It offers Ethernet passive optical network integrated chips for central office and customer premises applications. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Ellacoya Networks, Inc. provides broadband service optimization solutions. It offers visibility across the network and protection from network threats. It offers broadband operators with an IP service management platform that enables them to analyze and manage high-speed data traffic by application and by activity. This platform provides a complete and scalable solution for building intelligent broadband networks and ways to deliver new, revenue-generating services including VoIP and IPTV. The company was founded in 1999 by Kurt Dobbins and is located in Merrimack, NH.

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs. Capella was founded in 2000. Privately held and located in San Jose, California, Capella has a seasoned management team with experience from leading telecom and technology companies. Additionally Capella has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with 27 patents issued and over 30 pending. The company has been funded by leading ventures funds including Formative Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, Lucas Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.

Cyan, Inc. develops software-defined networks. Its solutions include high-capacity, multi-layer switching and transport platforms as well as a carrier-grade software-defined networking platform and applications. The firm?s solutions are designed to provide a variety of existing and emerging applications, including business Ethernet, wireless backhaul, broadband backhaul and cloud connectivity. The company was founded by Michael L. Hatfield, Steve J. West, J. Richard Johnston and Eric M. Clelland on October 25, 2006 and is headquartered in Petaluma, CA.