Networking, communication, Telecom systems and security startups

Wave7 Optics has established itself as an industry leader in optical broadband access systems with an expanding fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural options, based on IP and Ethernet standards, for "triple play" voice, video and data services. The company's patented Last Mile Link™ and Trident7™ systems are deployed Worldwide and continue to rapidly gain market share with service providers in the IOC, CLEC, MSO, municipal, utility and real estate development markets.

Vormetric Data Security Expert delivers high-performance, policy-based encryption, access control and audit to protect your data, your business and your brand. Across the distributed enterprise, Vormetric Data Security Expert automatically secures data in storage, access and in transit. Any file, any database, anywhere – Vormetric Data Security Expert provides persistent security for data at the highest performance and lowest possible cost.

Certeon is a private company that was founded in 2003; it is funded by three leading venture-capital firms-Globespan Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, and RRE. The first product shipment of Certeon's S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances was in February 2006. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

YouSendIt is the trusted global leader in digital content delivery. Our innovative platform empowers people to send, receive and track digital files on-demand. YouSendIt’s reliable service provides a convenient email attachment solution, an easy-to-use FTP replacement, and eliminates the need to send files on disk with an overnight courier service.

Oakley Networks was acquired by Raytheon Company in October 2007 and renamed Raytheon Oakley Systems, and integrated into the Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems division. The Raytheon Oakley platform combines network observation and threat detection with industry-leading endpoint protection that can be immediately implemented to protect product designs, customer databases, financial plans, and other critical assets.

Service providers worldwide rely on SS8 Networks® to help build unified communication services and to meet government mandated requirements for lawful traffic interception. As a long term supplier of voice messaging solutions, SS8 products can be used as stand-alone service solutions, or as an integral part of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) network.

Alacritech, Inc., led by industry visionary Larry Boucher, began in 1997 to provide data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. After conceiving the idea of the SCSI interface and writing its initial specifications, Boucher conducted early work that led to the development of SCSI over Ethernet. When he envisioned the technical and cost advantages of using hardware acceleration for data delivery, he founded Alacritech with a handpicked team of engineers.

Blue Lane Technologies is headquartered in Cupertino, CA. The company provides solutions that secure virtual and physical data centers with zero footprint, zero downtime and zero tuning. Since January 2007 Blue Lane has won Best of Interop in security as well as Infoworld's Technology of the Year, also in security. Blue Lane has won numerous other awards, including the AO 100 Top Private Company Award for 2006 and 2007. It is also a 2006 Gartner Cool Vendor in Security and Privacy.

Mazu Networks offers solutions that enable IT organizations to manage, secure, and optimize the availability and performance of business services. Mazu Profiler uses Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) to provide a new way of looking at the IT infrastructure by analyzing network traffic to provide valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications, and systems.

Resolute Networks. is a leading provider of standards-compliant sub-system and OEM solutions for Circuit Emulation Services (CES) applications. Resolute’s products and solutions are optimized to support high performance converged telecommunication services, including E1/T1 over IP, Ethernet and MPLS infrastructures.