Danial Faizullabhoy

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Virtual Silicon Technology, Inc. supplies semiconductor intellectual property solutions. Its solutions include cell libraries, basic I/O's, applications, memory compilers and programmable phase locked loops. The company was founded in 1997 by Michael G. Kliment and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

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.

Ikanos Communications, Inc. designs, develops, markets semiconductors and integrated firmware. It also develops and markets end-to-end products for the last mile and digital home, which enable carriers to offer enhanced triple play services including voice, video, and data. The company was founded by Behrooz Rezvani in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Infravio, Inc. provided web services software and professional services. It offered development, management and execution of web services. The company was founded by Mukund Balasubramanian & Srinivas Balasubramanian in 1999 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Founded in 2000, Ubicom, Inc. is a semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, CA, that develops processor and software solutions to optimize data flow when Media Meets Networking. Ubicom has shipped over millions of units to OEMs and ODMs around the world for a wide range of products including streaming media devices, home media distribution products, and wireless routers. Ubicom's fourth generation IP7K processor family is the latest in their line of 32-bit processors for high performance embedded applications. Ubicom develops networking and multimedia processor solutions that address the unique demands of networking applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, home gateways, VoIP gateways, and streaming media devices.

Broadlogic Network Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and delivers video processing semiconductors for broadband networks. Its products include teraPIX Video processors, teraQAM modulators and wideband receivers. The company was founded by Jim Meyer and Toby Farrand in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

MorphICs Technology, Inc. manufactures and develops fabless semiconductor digital baseband circuits for terminal devices and basestations. It offers programmable signal processing semiconductors and software solutions for wireless infrastructure and terminals. The company was founded by Ravi Subramanian and N. Charles Podaras in 1998 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.