Ronald Wages

Spectrum Signal Processing, Inc. provides software defined radio solutions. It offers products and services for military communications, signals intelligence, surveillance, electronic warfare, and satellite communications applications. The firm also provides application engineering services to the government organizations. The company was founded by James Fletcher and Barry W. Jinks in 1987 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

Virata Corporation. develops, manufactures and provides communications processors and DSL chips along with integrated software modules to manufacturers of equipment utilizing digital subscriber line and broadband wireless technologies

D2 is the market leader in software that powers IP communications for devices used in converged communications applications and markets. The company’s mCUE™, a converged multi-modal communications client solution and vPort™, an embedded VoIP software product, enable service providers, OEMs and ODMs to more quickly deliver to market today’s most in-demand communications services and applications for mobile phones, media players, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), netbooks, desktop IP phones, CPE equipment (gateways, routers, IADs) and more. With the wealth of communication mediums available to users today, from text and cell to VoIP, video, IM, social networks and beyond, device manufacturers, service providers, software vendors and others are scrambling to add enhanced connectivity to previous stand-alone devices (consumer electronics, photo frames, PMPs, etc.) and multiplying the number of communication options on desktop, mobile and CPE devices. The next major trend is the unification of these communication mediums, eliminating the service-silo focus and replacing it with an integrated, user-centric solution that makes the underlying services transparent and the connection interface completely seamless. Converged communication, with its advanced functionality such as Presence and IM, offers tremendous value to enterprises through unified communications (UC), and helps carriers boost revenues via provided or hosted services as well as residential broadband. In turn, the emergence of new converged communication devices and modes demand a completely new type of communications user interface for a seamless user experience. As manufacturers rush new multi-modal devices to market, one thing is clear: a vendor neutral software solution is as critical as the development of new hardware in powering the communication's revolution. D2’s software elegantly enables multi-modal converged communications on devices used in diverse market applications and addresses the needs of OEMs and service providers by delivering integrated FMC and UC functionality. D2’s VoIP and IP communications software are the products of choice for top-tier communication OEMs and service providers because they drive revenue and differentiate their solutions in key segments of the communications market. Current customers include Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent, 3Com, Sonus Networks, Ericsson, Siemens, Zhone, Polycom, Neuf/SFR, Clearwire, LG, Sumitomo and others. Hardware and software design are related, but distinctly separate, engineering disciplines. By abstracting the software layer so it is independent of the underlying hardware, D2 enables manufacturers to concentrate on product platform design and branding while leveraging the best available software, OS and IC components. D2’s user experience solution abstracts specific communications services (e.g. PBX based enterprise VoIP, cellular voice or third party VoIM like Google Talk) making the solution highly flexible, configurable and portable to a variety of mobile device development platforms such as Android, Windows, Ubuntu and other Linux. Regardless of an OEM’s design needs, D2’s highly modular architecture ensures portability to any processor, hardware or OS and delivers industry-leading features and call quality. In fact, D2 has developed long-standing relationships and a solid ecosystem with the industry’s leading SoC/IC companies including Cavium, LSI, Freescale, Marvell, Applied Micro, Texas Instruments, NXP, and Infineon. In short, D2 Technologies’ software engines ensure that a broad range of manufacturers are able to quickly and affordably deliver on the promise of converged communications.

MEMSCAP, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets ultra-high precision and stability pressure sensors for the avionics and medical market segments. The private company is based in Durham, NC. The company also supplies variable optical attenuator chips for the fiber optics markets and receive royalties on one of their registered trade marks (ioma). The company's pressure sensors and modules are designed to perform in the most demanding applications, sustaining high environmental stresses of harsh environments while providing state-of-the-art precision, long-term stability, and reliability. The company's products and technologies are also implanted into the human body and integrated into the most advanced medical equipment. MEMSCAP is a leading supplier of MEMS-based variable optical attenuator chips used in optical power management within fiber telecommunications and data communications networks. The company was founded in 1997 by Jean-Michael Karam, who has been the CEO since 1997.

Vagues Solid State Lighting, Inc. manufactures lighting products. The company was founded on August 28, 2009 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Jds Uniphase Corp. provides integrated fiber testing, fiber inspection, and optical power measurement solutions. VIAVI is based in San Jose, CA. The private company offers high-performance handheld instruments that cut fiber testing and certification time in half. The company works with over 400 channel partners to sell a broad portfolio of solutions to network, communications, and electronics technology leaders worldwide. VIAVI empowers service providers and IT organizations to manage the network lifecycle for complex 5G and networks with intuitive instruments, systems, and technologies. The company also specializes in light management and optical coatings that help protect the world's banknotes from counterfeiters, enhance colors, and enable advanced technology such as 3D sensing. The company serves government, aerospace, and defense customers with solutions that drive efficiency and reliability for the entire lifecycle of service deployment.