Thomas M. Burkardt

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

Wang Laboratories, Inc. develops, markets, and supports software and provides integration and support services for computers. The company is based in Billerica, MA. Wang Laboratories was acquired by Getronics BV, part of Bottega InvestCo SARL from July 07, 2017 on June 08, 1999 for $1,376.08 million.

Unisphere Networks, Inc. provides voice and data platforms for service providers. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Siemens Corp. manufactures electrical hardware and software for the communication, power, medical and other industries. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Founded in 1969, Fidelity Ventures Ltd. is a venture capital firm located in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of Volition Capital LLC, a growth equity investment firm also located in Boston.

Castle Networks, a Unisphere Solutions company, designs next-generation central office-based communications platforms that address the cost-effective convergence of circuit switched voice networks and packet switched data networks. Focused on delivering carrier class voice and data convergence equipment for 21st Century telecommunications networks, Castle Networks' mission is to transform telecommunications by migrating the PSTN to a high-performance, low-cost, multi-service network irrespective of where the user gains access.

WaveSmith was founded in March of 2000 to redefine multiservice switching. Its approach empowers carriers to cap their investments in aging technology while they begin deploying next-generation platforms. In this way, WaveSmith embraces carriers' near-term, tactical requirements as well as their strategic vision. The WaveSmith Distributed Node (DN)™ multiservice switch platform is the first product line designed from the ground up to sustain and leverage today's layer 2 infrastructure with an evolutionary path to future technologies.

BlueNote Networks, Inc. offers communications-enabled business applications. Its products include SessionSuite enterprise edition, a standalone software application that enables an enterprise to deliver calling features and services such as integral voicemail and conferencing to distributed Internet connected users. The company was founded in January 2005 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA.