Wayne B. Gartin

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Bandwidth9, Inc. designs and manufactures tunable fiber optic components and modules for telecommunications and metro optical network systems. The company was founded in November 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Agility Communications, Inc. manufactures laser components and other optoelectronic products. It focuses on offering tunable transponder and tunable laser solutions for carriers and system providers. It offers tunable transmitter and transponder products. The company was founded by Ronald Nelson, Gregory A. Fish and Larry A. Coldren in Oct 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Lucent Technologies used to design, develop and manufacture telecommunications systems, software and products. The company was headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, UK.