Mike Bailey

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

McData Corp. provided storage networking solutions. Its products include Sphereon switches, embedded blade server switches, eclipse SAN routers, UltraNet extension products, and enterprise fabric connectivity manager management and storage networking services software. The company was founded in 1982 and was headquartered in Broomfield, CO.

Part of Asure Software, Inc., Compression Labs, Inc. develops and makes visual communications systems. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Compression Labs was acquired by Asure Software, Inc. on May 27, 1997 for $52.50 million.

Part of Harmonic, Inc., DiviCom is a wholesaler of industrial supplies. The company is based in Texas City, TX. The company was founded by Tom Lookabaugh. DiviCom was acquired by Harmonic, Inc. from C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. on May 03, 2000 for $1,692.82 million.

Lantern Communications, Inc. was a provider of packet-based transport ethernet connection products. Founded in 1999, the firm was located in Sunnyvale, CA.