Agility
Agility (acquired by JDSU) is a leading supplier of tunable transponders and optical components for telecom infrastructure.
USVP Contact:
Steve Krausz and Paul Matteucci
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Alchemy
Alchemy (acquired by AMD) is a communications IC company, targeting wireless and wire-line applications in Internet edge devices.
USVP Contact:
Winston Fu
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Crescendo Communications
Crescendo pioneered ISDN over copper, and was an early entry in the ethernet switch marketplace. The company was Cisco's first major acquisition. At least four of Cisco's present senior management were members of Crescendo's executive team.
USVP Contact:
Irwin Federman
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Dilithium Networks
3G video telephony solutions for the world's mobile and broadband industries.
USVP Contact:
Chris Rust
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Harmonic Lightwaves (HLIT)
Leading provider of digital video, broadband and optical networking and IP delivery systems to cable, satellite, telecom and broadcast network operators.
USVP Contact:
Steve Krausz
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Minerva Networks
Provides a complete hardware/software product suite, enabling quality TV transmission over Internet Protocol.
USVP Contact:
Irwin Federman
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New Focus
New Focus (acquired by Bookham, Inc.) develops passive and active optical components and test equipment for communications applications.
USVP Contact:
Winston Fu and Steve Krausz
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Occam Networks (OCNW)
Occam develops and markets innovative Broadband Loop Carrier networking equipment that enables telephone companies to deliver voice, data and video services based on Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies through a single, all-packet access network.
USVP Contact:
Steve Krausz
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Redline Communications (RDL)
Redline designs and manufactures standards-based broadband wireless access solutions. Using industry leading OFDM technologies, Redline's award-winning products provide unmatched high capacity and non-line-of-sight capabilities.
USVP Contact:
Tim Connors
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StrataLight
StartaLight (acquired by opnext) is a leader in in the development of transport solutions that take advantage of spectrally efficient lightwave modulation. The company delivers 40 Gigabit per second fiber transmission subsystems sold as OEM products to carriers.
USVP Contact:
Steve Krausz and Chris Rust
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Sun Microsystems (JAVA)
Develops workstations, software and services for a wide variety of markets, including scientific, engineering and as Internet infrastructure.
USVP Contact:
Bill Bowes
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Teknovus
Develops and delivers the only proven, fourth-generation EPON chipset with the features and performance to enable fast, easy-to-deploy, low-cost triple-play (voice, data, video) via fiber to the home (FTTH) at 1000 times the bandwidth of DSL.















