Timothy M. Heenan

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Solarflare Communications, Inc. develops server networking solutions. Its products include app acceleration, server security, network capture and network adapters. The firm offers electronic trading, database caching, networked storage, server security, software load balancers and web server solutions. The company was founded by Derek Roberts, Ben Charny, David Riddoch, Ahmet Tuncay, George A. Zimmerman and Pope Steve in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

ClariPhy Communications, Inc. develops mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits for networking applications. It also develops mixed signal, advanced digital signal processing SoCs targeting multi-mode, multi-rate high performance optical network applications at 10, 40, 100, and 200G via the industry's most comprehensive product portfolio. The company provides CL1012, a clock and data recovery integrated circuit for metro, regional, and long haul telecom networks; CL1012 evaluation board, a tool used to test and analyze maximum likelihood sequence estimated electronic dispersion compensation technology in combination with XFP modules; CL4010 LightSpeed, a coherent single chip dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying transceiver; and custom system-on-chips. ClariPhy Communications was founded by Paul Voois, Norm Swenson and Bharath Jagannathan on September 19, 2002 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

NextWave Wireless Inc. develops wireless broadband and multimedia software. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Quorum Systems, Inc. manufactures semiconductor and related devices. It offers multi-mode, multi-band single-chip radio transceivers and managed enterprise mobility applications for wireline carriers. The company was founded in 2002 by Bernard Xavier and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

MMC Networks, Inc. develops and supplies network processing platforms used in the networking functions. The platforms consists of network processors and switch fabrics