Parthiban Kandappan

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.

Part of Fortinet, Inc., Zaffire, Inc. is a company that develops optical networking solutions. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Zaffire was acquired by Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc. on October 22, 2001.

FORE Systems, Inc. was a supplier of integrated multi service networking solutions specializes in providing scalable, reliable and high-capacity ATM and IP/Ethernet switching solutions to meet the demands of large enterprise businesses and service providers. FORE Systems products and solutions were used by modern enterprise businesses that are leveraging the power of networking technology to compete in the age of the Internet economy. FORE Systems was headquartered in Warrendale, PA.