Vijay C. Parikh

Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets. Teranetics provides state-of-the-art silicon solutions that enable 10G rate over the traditional UTP copper cabling, an order of magnitude improvement over rates available in enterprise networks. Teranetics products allow data centers and enterprise networks to increase scalability and improve throughput while dramatically lowering the cost of ownership for 10G links. Teranetics solutions are being adopted by many of the networking industries leading OEMs and equipment providers.

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