Francois Tournesac

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, Unitrode Corp. is a company that makes and sells analog/linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications. The company is based in Merrimack, NH. Unitrode was founded in 1960 and was acquired by Texas Instruments Incorporated on October 15, 1999 for $1,238.64 million.

ANDA Networks, Inc. provides carrier-class solutions for delivering communication services. It also provides ethernet equipment solutions that offer ethernet services over fiber, copper, and wireless access networks. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Quantum Bridge Communications, Inc. was a provider of Fiber to the Premises, including Fiber to the Home and Fiber to the Business, solutions designed to address the bandwidth bottlenecks in access networks. The Quantum Bridge product family had been designed to meet the stringent network requirements of service providers. The firm was located in Andover, MA.

Metrobility Optical Systems, Inc. manufactures copper-to-fiber media converters and other networking equipment. Its products include line cards, transceivers, modular chassis and management software. The company was founded in 1981 and is located in Merrimack, NH.

Hatteras Networks, Inc. provides broadband Ethernet services. The company was founded on June 20, 2000 and is headquartered in Durnham, NC.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Internet Society, The Internet Engineering Task Force is a technical standards body that gathers a large international community of network designers, engineers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the internet architecture and the smooth operation of the internet. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The IETF seeks broad participation and its work takes place online, largely through email lists, reducing barriers to participation and maximizing contributions from around the world. More than 120 IETF working groups are organized by topic into areas such as routing, transport, and security.

Insight Sourcing Group Holdings, Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers spend analysis and management, strategic sourcing, private equity sourcing programs, procurement transformation. The company was founded by Thomas F. Beaty in 2002 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. provides information solutions to the communications industry worldwide. It offers customer care, billing, and order management systems for communications and Internet services providers; and business support systems for directory publishing companies. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Metro Ethernet Forum promotes ethernet technologies and products. The firm enables service providers to create a global ecosystem of networks that deliver on-demand services for the digital economy and hyper-connected world. It produces LSO frameworks, open LSO APIs, software-driven reference implementations, service specifications, certification programs, and market education. The company was founded by Nen Chen and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.