Beck Mason

Collinear Corp. develops semiconductor based illumination technologies. The company was founded by Russ Lampert, George Ballog, Elliot Broadwin, Greg Miller, and Gabriel C. Risk on December 3, 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Finisar Corp. operates as an optical communications company. The firm provides components and subsystems to networking equipment manufacturers, data center operators, telecom service providers, consumer electronics and automotive companies. Its products include optical transceivers, active optical cable, optical engines, communication components, sensing components, and optical instrumentation. The company was founded by Frank H. Levinson and Jerry S. Rawls in April 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

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

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Agere Systems, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures integrated circuits used in communications networks and computer equipment

Oclaro, Inc. engages in the design, manufacturing and marketing of optical components and modules for the long-haul, metro and data center markets. It also provides solutions for optical networks and high-speed interconnects for streaming video, cloud computing, application virtualization and other bandwidth-intensive and high-speed applications. The company was founded on July 6, 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.