New Focus exhibits signs of optical fixation. New Focus company makes photonics (application of electromagnetic energy) products, including tunable lasers, opto- electronics, high-resolution actuators, optomechanics, and vacuum and ultraclean systems, which are used in aerospace and defense, semiconductor metrology, life sciences and biomedical instrumentation, industrial manufacturing, inspection, and test and measurement applications. New Focus also manufactures motorized components and provides engineering services. Like many California-based technology startups, New Focus made its start in a garage, in 1990. Parent Oclaro sold New Focus company in 2009 to rival Newport.

Canada Payphone Corporation (CPC) is Canada's leading competitive payphone service provider. A subsidiary company of Globalive Communications, Canada Payphone has played an instrumental role in the deregulation of the competitive payphone industry and continues to create exciting business opportunities in the new era of public access communications.Globalive Communications is a privately- owned telecommunications provider based in Toronto. Globalive is the outsource partner of choice for major carriers and phone companies looking for outsource solutions for payphones, operator services, calling cards, audio and web conferencing, VoIP, and billing services. Globalive was recently ranked Canada’s Fastest Growing Company in Canada as part of the 16th annual Profit 100.

Terabit hopes to build a better router (or at least cobble a better one together). The company, which is conducting research and development for the US Department of Defense (through DARPA), is developing a commercial products it calls "metarouters" that combine off-the-shelf network data routers into larger systems using its proprietary network switches and software. Based on an IP standard, metarouters provide the architecture for a scalable network that handles integrated data, voice, and video without requiring specialized hardware.

Call Kabul thanks to Telephone Systems International (TSI). The company provides phone and Internet services in Afghanistan. Founded in 1998 by CEO, Afghan emigre Ehsan Bayat, TSI has been involved in efforts to rebuild the Afghani infrastructure and bring telecom services to the country. The company operates in Afghanistan through a joint venture with the Afghan government known as Afghan Wireless Communications Company (AWCC); the Afghan state owns 20% of the business which was founded in 1999 and began offering wireless and Internet communications services in 2002. AWCC has sales and administrative offices in several major cities across the country including Kabul, Jalalabad, and Kandahar.

Store Electronic Systems (SES) urges retailer to ditch paper labels and go digital. The company designs and makes wireless communication products, namely electronic labels for store shelves that display product information and enable rapid price changing. Its systems come with a PC that encodes and organizes data for the labels, a transmitter that communicates with the labels via low frequency radio, a handheld terminal that links a label to a product via barcode, and electronic labels that show real-time product names and pricing to consumers. SES label systems are used in more than 3,000 stores by some of Europe's largest grocery retailers, including France's Carrefour, Germany's Edeka, and the UK's Tesco. Store Electronic Systems (SES) urges retailer to ditch paper labels and go digital. The company designs and makes wireless communication products, namely electronic labels for store shelves that display product information and enable rapid price changing. Its systems come with a PC that encodes and organizes data for the labels, a transmitter that communicates with the labels via low frequency radio, a handheld terminal that links a label to a product via barcode, and electronic labels that show real-time product names and pricing to consumers. SES label systems are used in more than 3,000 stores by some of Europe's largest grocery retailers, including France's Carrefour, Germany's Edeka, and the UK's Tesco.

Integra places technicians, account managers and customer care professionals in your market, we are able to quickly address your questions and concerns. In fact, on average, Integra resolves over 90 percent of all customer questions on the first call. Technical support engineers monitor Integra's state-of-the-art network 24 hours a day. No matter when you call, an experienced professional will always answer, ready to help. Businesses rate reliability as the most important factor in choosing a voice and data communications provider. To ensure clear, fast and dependable service, we actually own and maintain our own network instead of reselling another carrier's service. This investment enables us to control the quality and reliability of service to our customers.

ICO Global Communications will be a satellite-based communications system with global coverage. The company's principal operating subsidiary, DBSD North America, (formerly known as ICO North America), is authorized to operate a medium-Earth-orbit satellite service to provide mobile voice, data, and Internet services primarily in the US. In addition to telephone and messaging capabilities, its consumer-oriented service is slated to deliver mobile entertainment content such as television programming, as well as interactive navigation data to wireless computing devices and vehicle navigation systems. Debt-laden DBSD North America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in mid-2009.

Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT) has the island wired ... and wireless. The company provides nationwide fixed-line and wireless services to residential, government, and consumer customers in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. PRT has more than 1 million combined landline and mobile subscribers, making it the island nation's largest telecommunications company in terms of customers. Wireless service is sold under the Claro brand. PRT also sells Internet access bundled with computer telephony service under the DMAX brand. The company, which began providing services in Puerto Rico in 1914, also offers long distance services. PRT is a subsidiary of Mexico City-based América Móvil.

DSL for Deutschland could be the slogan for QSC (formerly QS Communications). Capitalizing on European telecommunications deregulation, QSC is taking on Deutsche Telekom by offering high-speed Internet access via DSL to residential and business customers in Germany. QSC's network, upgraded in 2005 to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capability, extends to more than 200 cities. Although the company does serve residential customers, its primary segments consist of commercial businesses and wholesalers and retailers. CEO Bernd Schlobohm and supervisory board member Gerd Eickers founded the company in 1999, and each owns 10%; Baker Capital owns about 25% of the company.

CSR plc, together with its subsidiaries, develops and provides single chip wireless solutions to support data and voice communications between various products over short range radio links. Its products include BlueCore, a single- chip microcontroller-equipped solution for Bluetooth applications; UniFi, a single-chip Wi-Fi solution for embedded applications; CVC (clear voice capture), an echo and noise cancellation software for voice communications; and SiRFstarIV platform with SiRFaware GPS technology that optimizes mobile phones, mobile computers, and mobile Internet devices for location enabled services. The company’s products are used in various applications, including access points, automotive, consumer/home, headset and headphones, mobiles/personal digital assistant, and personal computers/peripherals, as well as portable media players, Internet radio, and digital photo frames. CSR markets its products to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers principally through its direct sales force and sales representatives, as well as through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

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