John M. Cioffi

Adaptive Spectrum & Signal Alignment, Inc. offers broadband software solutions to service providers. It offers DSL Expresse, GPON Expresse, cloudcheck and professional services. The firm provides customer experience management, customer empowerment, customer care automation, customer care enhancement, next generation networks, smart vectoring, active care and outside plant maintenance solutions. The company was founded by Assia Cioffi and John M. Cioffi in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Phytunes, Inc is a company that revolutionizes the delivery of high-frequency signals over wires, enabling wireless wireline convergence and the transport of high-frequency wireless signals over existing wired infrastructure to seamlessly deliver full 5g inside the home, small business, or enterprise. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The founding team brings years of experience in deploying new services from companies such as Samsung, Qualcomm, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and universities such as UC, UCLA, and UT Austin. Phytunes empowers telecom carriers and businesses to deliver extraordinary customer experiences fostering brand loyalty and trust. The CEO of the company is Jisung Oh.

Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets. Teranetics provides state-of-the-art silicon solutions that enable 10G rate over the traditional UTP copper cabling, an order of magnitude improvement over rates available in enterprise networks. Teranetics products allow data centers and enterprise networks to increase scalability and improve throughput while dramatically lowering the cost of ownership for 10G links. Teranetics solutions are being adopted by many of the networking industries leading OEMs and equipment providers.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Amati Communications corp. was a provider of digital modem technology, also known as Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL), which lets ordinary phone lines transmit data more than 100 times faster than today's 56K analog voiceband modems. Using TI's digital signal processing technology, next generation modems will provide users with faster, more reliable access to the Internet along with the ability to use a single phone for simultaneous functions

Part of International Business Machines Corp., IBM Research is a corporate research lab with over 3,000 researchers in 19 locations across six continents. The private company is based in Yorktown Heights, NY and was founded by Thomas Boudalier. The company invests in breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain technology. IBM Research is dedicated to applying AI and science to industry challenges, from healthcare to environmentalism to retail.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.