Bruce D. Horn

Oplink Communications LLC provides optical communication components, intelligent modules and subsystems. The firm offers integrated design and manufacturing solutions to global and emerging network equipment makers serving multiple addressable infrastructure markets of metro and long-haul transport and aggregation, wireless traffic hauling, data center networking and cable TV. Its product include mux/demux, switching/routing, coupling/splitting, monitoring/conditioning, amplifications, polarizations, interconnect, transceivers, transmitters and receivers, HFC/RoF subsystems and ODM/OEM. Oplink Communications was founded by Yen-Liang Liu in September 1995 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

StrataLight Communications, Inc. develops fiber transmission subsystems. Its products include OTS-4000 system, OTS-4700, and OTS-4011. Its systems are used in building long-haul optical networks. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Larscom, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets high speed global internetworking solutions for net service providers and corporate users. Its products provide access to fractional TI, frame, relay channelized T3, integrated services digital network etc. Its customers include NSPs, internet service providers, fortune 500 corporations, systems intergrators, value added resellers and government agencies. It was headquartered at Newark, California.

Signet Solar, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures silicon Photovoltaic (PV) modules. Its technology is targeted for applications in solar farms, commercial installations, building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and remote habitation. The company was co-founded by Prabhu Goel, Rajeeva Lahri & B. B. Patel in September, 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Virident Systems, Inc. developed flash-based storage class memory solutions. It offered solid state disks for data-intensive workloads, such as databases, business analytics, simulation, visualization, and computing applications. The firms products included FlashMAX II and Virident vFAS. The company was founded by Kumar Ganapathy, Rajesh Parekh and Vijay Karamcheti in 2006 and was headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Akros Silicon, Inc. provides power management integrated circuits. The company was founded by J. Francois Crepin, Sajol C. Ghoshal and John R. Camagna in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.