Benny P. Mikkelsen

Mintera's world-class team has a strong track record in introducing leading edge products and satisfying customers in the most demanding environments. Mintera is backed by prestigious venture capital firms and is already serving the requirements of partners world-wide. Mintera's solutions enable easy deployment of next generation 40 Gbps optical transport in metro-core, regional, long- haul and ultra long-haul optical networks. With products ready for deployment today, it is the company to turn to when customers need help implementing 40 Gigabit per second (Gbps) solutions. Mintera's flexible multi-service 40 Gbps product-set, protected by multiple pending patents, enables service providers to seamlessly and cost effectively to upgrade their existing infrastructure to 40 Gbps in an evolutionary fashion and preserve existing investments by adding this capability to currently installed networks.

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.

Lucent Technologies used to design, develop and manufacture telecommunications systems, software and products. The company was headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, UK.

Acacia Communications, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products that are designed to transform communications networks through improvements in performance, capacity, and cost. The company was founded by Mehrdad Givehchi, Benny P. Mikkelsen, and Christian J. Rasmussen in June 2009 and is headquartered in Maynard, MA.