Robert A. O'Neil

Cascade Communication Corp. develops, manufactures, markets and supports a family of high performance, multi-service wide area network switches. The company provides cost-effective, high-speed data, video and voice communication services to public service providers and private network managers. The company's products also provide access services for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol and Integrated Services Digital Network users. The company markets its products and services through seventeen offices in the United States and four offices internationally

BroadSoft, Inc. provided software and services that allow mobile, fixed-line, and cable providers to deliver voice and multimedia services. Its products were BroadWorks, BroadCloud and BroadTouch. The BroadWorks software enables service providers to deliver enterprises and individual consumers with a cloud-based offerings, like hosted IP Centrex, video calling, SIP Trunking, unified messaging, call centers and audio conferencing. The company was founded by Michael Tessler and Scott D. Hoffpauir in November 1998 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

WaveSmith was founded in March of 2000 to redefine multiservice switching. Its approach empowers carriers to cap their investments in aging technology while they begin deploying next-generation platforms. In this way, WaveSmith embraces carriers' near-term, tactical requirements as well as their strategic vision. The WaveSmith Distributed Node (DN)™ multiservice switch platform is the first product line designed from the ground up to sustain and leverage today's layer 2 infrastructure with an evolutionary path to future technologies.

Aptis Communications, Inc., is a provider of carrier-class access switches to network service providers, carriers and Internet service providers. The Aptis CVX 1800 will set the standard for carrier-class solutions that enable service providers to acquire and retain customers, reduce operations costs and deploy new services

Covergence, Inc. provides unified security and management solutions. Its services include time voice, video, instant messaging, and web conferencing for applications and services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The company was founded by Kenneth Kuenzel in October, 2003 and is headquartered in Maynard, MA.