Gopal Venkatesh

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Broadcom Corp. designs, develops and supplies semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. The company was founded by Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli on August 16, 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Silicon Light Machines Corp. develops and markets optical technology and products for fiber-optic communications networks. The firm's grating light valve technology is a spatial light modulator on the surface of a silicon chip that is used in optical components, print, and display-related products. Its products serve various applications including digital display, computer-to-print systems, maskless lithography, and telecommunications. The company was founded in 1994 and is located in San Jose, CA.

Matisse Networks' EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Swtich is revolutionizing optical networking by improving efficiency up to 50% over circuit-oriented networks. EtherBurst simplifies the network by reducing equipment requirements and operational expenses, resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership of any optical network. The EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch is the most efficient way to scale Carrier Ethernet networks. The EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch provides zero-touch optical networking that accelerates service velocity by overcoming the inefficiencies and complexities of circuit-oriented optical transport networks. EtherBurst is the first commercially available Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch based upon Ring OBS technology. Matisse has been awarded numerous patents and industry recognition awards for its breakthrough research and development in the field of optical networking. Matisse Networks is a privately held company located in Mountian View, CA.

Ikanos Communications, Inc. designs, develops, markets semiconductors and integrated firmware. It also develops and markets end-to-end products for the last mile and digital home, which enable carriers to offer enhanced triple play services including voice, video, and data. The company was founded by Behrooz Rezvani in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Infravio, Inc. provided web services software and professional services. It offered development, management and execution of web services. The company was founded by Mukund Balasubramanian & Srinivas Balasubramanian in 1999 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Aarohi Communications, Inc. develops intelligent data center networking components and data management solutions. It offers FabricStream, the enabling technology for a new generation of intelligent storage networking platforms that will simplify enterprise storage management and enable heterogeneous storage consolidation. The company was founded by Shanti Subbaraman, Ashwini Choudhary, Amar Kapadia, Mukund Chavan, and Sriram Rupanagunta in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Broadlogic Network Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and delivers video processing semiconductors for broadband networks. Its products include teraPIX Video processors, teraQAM modulators and wideband receivers. The company was founded by Jim Meyer and Toby Farrand in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.