Communications Test Design, Inc. company was founded in 1975 by chairman and CEO Jerry Parsons, his father Donald, and brother Dick. CTDI is owned and led by the Parsons family. Communications Test Design (CTDI) repairs, installs, tests, and manufactures telecommunications equipment. The company's main business is providing repair and maintenance services to wireless and wireline carriers, and cable companies, as well as equipment makers such as Alcatel Lucent and Cisco. It also offers warehousing and distribution services, product testing, and equipment installation -- from laying cable to installing customer premise equipment. Additionally, CTDI makes a line of broadband switching and access equipment and provides contract manufacturing services.

Phyworks was acquired by Maxim in 2010. Phyworks' chips said "Fie!" to slow telecommunication links. The company offered serializer/deserializer devices and other microchips used in fiber-optic modules for high-speed LAN, SAN, and WAN equipment. The fabless semiconductor company was founded in 2001 by industry veterans; it outsourced production to silicon foundries (contract semiconductor manufacturers), including Taiwan Semiconductor and Jazz Semiconductor. Phyworks touted its chips as being less expensive and less power-hungry than typical devices of the same type.

StoneFly makes networking components for storage area networks (SANs). Customers in the consumer products, education, entertainment, financial services, government, health care, insurance, manufacturing, media, professional services, and retail sectors use its storage provisioning appliances to to manage their Internet protocol-based SANs. Customers include Ecker Enterprises and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). StoneFly was founded in 2000 and was financially backed by Crescendo Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, Palomar Ventures, and Rustic Canyon Group.StoneFly company now is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc.

Alcatel-Lucent Israel is part of French telecom equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent. When people in Israel reach out and touch someone, on the phone or online, it's probably Alcatel-Lucent Israel equipment that makes the connection possible. The company provides wire line and wireless, broadband, optical networking, network security, enterprise networking, convergence, and communication equipment. It also offers network design, deployment, integration, operation, and maintenance as well as fundamental research in nanotechnology and computer sciences. Its customers are businesses and government agencies and telecom service providers. Bezeq, Israel's largest telecom provider, is a major customer.

KiloLambda Technologies, Ltd. was founded in 2001, offers a variety of power control devices, including optical limiters, fuses, and terminators. It also makes optical pulse generators and other light sources, as well as proximity sensors. The company touts its devices as protecting electronic gear from power surges. Molex has packaged KiloLambda components into LC-plug attenuators, replacing standard fixed attenuators in controlling optical power. KiloLambda carries out research at its facility in Israel; its investors include Yozma Group and Skypoint Capital. It wouldn't kill you to know that KiloLambda Technologies makes optical components used in telecommunications, medical, and military applications.

Hemisphere GPS designs and manufactures commercial and industrial global positioning systems. Its GPS products include navigational guidance systems and receiver modules. Hemisphere GPS's Ground Agriculture Group designs and manufactures products for precision farming and agriculture (enabling precision spraying of crops and navigation of machinery in fields), while its Air Agriculture Group specializes in the design and manufacture of GPS products for farmers, forestry workers, and firefighters. Hemisphere GPS company also offers specialty products through its Precision GPS Guidance Group, including DGPS integrated receivers, GPS compasses, antennas, and OEM modules.

MTS Allstream helps telecommunications services flow. The company is the leading telecom carrier in the province of Manitoba and among the top providers in the country. It provides Internet protocol (IP)-based enterprise telecom services, including IT services, under the Allstream brand. MTS Allstream also offers consumer services, including wireline and wireless voice, Internet access, digital TV, and security and alarm monitoring services through the MTS brand. The company's enterprise division serves industries such as financial services, hospitality, and retail; clients have included Carlson Wagonlit and Best Western. MTS Allstream is a subsidiary of Manitoba Telecom Services.

CapRock Government Solutions helps soldiers and other government employees around the globe to keep in touch with each other. It specializes in building, maintaining, and managing satellite and terrestrial wide-area and international networks for the US Department of Defense, as well as other government and commercial clients. Additionally, it provides information technology and professional services, including systems and application integration, consulting, and training. Clients have included the US Army, the US Space Command, and various intelligence agencies. CapRock Government Solutions is a subsidiary of satellite communications provider CapRock Communications.

Digital Lightwave, Inc. company went private in January 2010 when it merged with Optel Capital, which is controlled by Digital Lightwave chairman Bryan Zwan. Digital Lightwave company was founded in 1990 by Zwan. Digital Lightwave puts communications networks to the test. Digital Lightwave company makes equipment for monitoring, maintaining, and managing fiber-optic networks. Digital Lightwave's Network Information Computers are portable touch-screen devices used to test networks and transmission equipment during installation and use. It also makes a range of equipment used in optical networks to remotely monitor and test network performance. Customers include telecommunications network operators and systems integrators.

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative provides quite modern telecom services to residents of western Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The company offers fixed-line and wireless phone service to more than 140,000 residential and business customers. Internet access is available via dial-up, broadband, or wireless, and the company offers almost 100 channels of digital television to certain areas in Kansas. The country's fourth-largest telephone cooperative also offers security systems, publishes its own yellow pages directory, and provides web hosting, e-mail, and networking services. The company was founded as a cooperative in 1953 to provide telephone services to rural Oklahoma residents.

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