Andre Chartrand

ClariPhy Communications, Inc. develops mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits for networking applications. It also develops mixed signal, advanced digital signal processing SoCs targeting multi-mode, multi-rate high performance optical network applications at 10, 40, 100, and 200G via the industry's most comprehensive product portfolio. The company provides CL1012, a clock and data recovery integrated circuit for metro, regional, and long haul telecom networks; CL1012 evaluation board, a tool used to test and analyze maximum likelihood sequence estimated electronic dispersion compensation technology in combination with XFP modules; CL4010 LightSpeed, a coherent single chip dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying transceiver; and custom system-on-chips. ClariPhy Communications was founded by Paul Voois, Norm Swenson and Bharath Jagannathan on September 19, 2002 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Cradle Technologies, Inc. provides video surveillance solutions and equipments. Its products include enVigil RDP, enVigil VMS and enVigil NVS. The company was founded by Satish Chandra Gupta in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

BilBlitz Communications, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductors for telecommunications networking systems. The company distributes its products in the U.S. and also worldwide. BilBlitz Communications was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Velio Communications, Inc. develops high-speed switching software and technology. It provides interconnect and switch fabric application specific standard products include high-bandwidth data switch fabric, TDM STS-1 switch fabric and engineering services. The company was founded by Ramin Farjad-Rad, Raju Chekuri and William James Dally in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA

Entropic Communications LLC operates as a provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, transforming how streaming IP-based video and high-definition multimedia content and services are delivered and distributed into and throughout the home. The company was founded by Itzhak Gurantz and Anton Monk on January 31, 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Solarflare Communications, Inc. develops server networking solutions. Its products include app acceleration, server security, network capture and network adapters. The firm offers electronic trading, database caching, networked storage, server security, software load balancers and web server solutions. The company was founded by Derek Roberts, Ben Charny, David Riddoch, Ahmet Tuncay, George A. Zimmerman and Pope Steve in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Chromatic Research is the front-runner in a closely watched race to supply the PC and consumer electronics industries with a new type of semiconductor technology for the multimedia age: media processors. Founded in 1993. Acquired by ATI Technologies, November 1998