Chuba N. Udokwu

Sonus, Inc. provides networked solutions for communications service providers and enterprises to help them advance, protect, and unify their communications and improve collaboration. Its products include session border controllers, policy/routing servers, media and signalling gateways and network analytics tools. The company's solutions address the need for communications service providers and enterprises to seamlessly link and leverage multivendor, multiprotocol communications systems and applications across their networks, around the world and in a rapidly changing ecosystem of IP-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. Sonus was founded in August 1997 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Seranoa Networks delivers carrier-class Service Edge Concentrators that allow service providers to more efficiently and cost-effectively deliver popular IP services with traditional services to business customers while leveraging their embedded access infrastructure

Astral Point, based in Chelmsford, MA, is a front-runner in next-general SONET metro optical systems. Astral Point has achieved numerous breakthroughs in optical and aggregation technologies. Across its product line, Astral Point offers densities up to seven times better than the nearest competitor, scalability up to eight times better, along with DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) capabilities and advanced data aggregation technologies.

Alcatel Alsthom Cie Generale D'Electricite SA is an international group whose core businesses are telecommunications systems & railroad and energy transportation systems. The group's cable subsidiaryis the largest producer of power transmission cables in the world. The company also produces batteries and has electrical engineering activities. Telecommunications accounted for 44% of 1996 revenues; telecommunication cables, 21%; energy and transportation, 18%; electrical systems, 13%; batteries, 3%, and other, 1%.

Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.