Michael Ward

MetaSwitch Ltd. delivers telephony switching products and commercial applications for packet and circuit-switched networks. . The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Enfield, the United Kingdom.

Metaswitch Networks Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in the development of systems management and networking software solutions. The firm specializes in the design of networking, session border control, infrastructure, management tools, and application development systems. Its solution areas encompass Internet protocol multimedia subsystems, telephony, original equipment manufacturing, and hosted business services. The company was founded by Ian S. Ferguson and Christopher John Mairs in 1981 and is headquartered in Enfield, the United Kingdom.

SEVEN Networks, Inc. develops mobile messaging and electronic mail software solutions. Its solution areas encompass mobile social networking, push notification, and open channel applications. The company was founded by Trevor Fiatal and Bill Nguyen in 2000 and is headquartered in Marshall, TX.

Paradyne Networks, Inc. used to develop and manufacture telecommunications products. It used to provide a broad family of IP-based broadband access solutions, including BLCs, DSLAMs, Ethernet over Copper Network Extenders, IADs and CPE. Its products used to support both residential triple play solutions & business class bonded SHDSL, ADSL2+, T1/E1 & DS3 bonded solutions for LAN Extension and Cell Site Data Backhaul applications. It was founded in 1969 and was headquartered in Largo, FL.

Broadwing Corp. provides data, voice and media networking solutions. The company was founded in David Huber in 1997 and is located in Columbia, MD.

Ascend Communications Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and services wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. Lucent Technologies has acquired Ascend Communications, Inc.

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks.

Edgewater Networks, Inc. develops products that ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice, video and data for service providers and enterprises. It offers network edge orchestration, intelligent edge solutions, edgeView service control center, cloud2edge complete, SD-WAN, skype for business, quickconnect interoperability and professional services. The company was founded in October 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.