Matthew Giuliano

Ascend Communications Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and services wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. Lucent Technologies has acquired Ascend Communications, Inc.

Cascade Communication Corp. develops, manufactures, markets and supports a family of high performance, multi-service wide area network switches. The company provides cost-effective, high-speed data, video and voice communication services to public service providers and private network managers. The company's products also provide access services for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol and Integrated Services Digital Network users. The company markets its products and services through seventeen offices in the United States and four offices internationally

Sycamore Networks, Inc. engages in the development and marketing of intelligent bandwidth management solutions for fixed line and mobile network operators. The company was founded by Gururaj Deshpande on February 17, 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Atrica, Inc. provides carrier ethernet solutions for Metropolitan Area networks. The company's solutions deliver broadband triple play services to business and residential customers. It has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. Atrica was founded by Avinoam Rubinstain in February, 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Purcell Systems, Inc. is a global company based in the United States, with an international counterpart based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has been servicing the telecom market since 2000. The company designs and manufactures industrial and thermally managed, modular outdoor electronic equipment enclosure solutions, and provides system level solutions to a variety of global customers in Telecom, Cable/MSO, Energy/Utility, Land Mobile Radio, Transportation, and U.S. Government/Military. These outdoor equipment enclosure solutions allow customers to save substantial time, labor, space, capital and operational expense as compared to prefabricated buildings and shelters, while meeting their needs for equipment mounting space, thermal management, copper and fiber cable management, power and battery backup.

Xedia Corp. develops high performance Internet access routers for wide area networks. The company was founded by Jens Peter Montanana and Ian Davison and headquartered in Littleton, MA.

Procket Networks, Inc. provided a range of intelligent IP networking technology and platforms to help customers realize maximum reliability and profitability from their converged networks. The company is located in San Jose, CA.

Reef Point Systems, Inc. (Quarry Technologies) produces a security solution that enables confidential communications over public and private networks with protection, tailored service, detailed accounting visibility and ready management control. The firm solution enables advanced IP services, including encrypted IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and firewalls with Denial of Service (DOS) attack prevention, for large, high-speed networks. The company was founded in 1998 by Avi Legmann and is located in Burlington, MA.