Jack Brickey

GENBAND, Inc. provides smart networking solutions for service providers and enterprises. Its products include application and client platforms, session border controllers, call controllers, media gateways, wireless access gateways, cloud services and management. The company also provide customer support, EDGE training, education, FLEX deployment services. GENBAND was founded by Anthony John Paul Carew, Brendon W. Mills, Ronald D. Lutz and Steven Raich in 1999 and is headquartered in Frisco, TX.

RipCode delivers transcoding solutions to providers of mobile, desktop and IPTV content. Its transcoding platform uniquely supports both live and file-based transcoding applications with the broadest codec support, most extensive device coverage, and widest range of picture resolutions. The platform provides this transcoding flexibility while enabling customer-optimized tradeoffs between concurrency, real-time performance, and quality of experience - enabling video transcoding and delivery to be closely aligned with specific business model needs. Its platform is fully integrated with all popular forms of video delivery applications including RTSP streaming, Adaptive RTSP streaming, HTTP Progressive Download, Apple iPhone 3.0 Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Adobe's upcoming HTTP Adaptive Download. The RipCode TransAct Platform™ sets them apart from traditional 'box' transcoding vendors. The TransAct portfolio extends industry-leading transcoding technology to a policy-driven video delivery platform elevating scalable, easy to deploy, revenue-generating video delivery to an on-the-fly, real-time network transaction tuned to the needs of each provider's business goals.

Pliant Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets integrated multi-service access platforms for the telecommunications industry. The company was founded in July 1988 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Broadband Technologies, Inc. (now Pliant systems, Inc.) is involved in designing, engineering, manufacturing and marketing of sophisticated electronics hardware and software product for the telecommunications industry, focusing primarily on operators of local exchange telephone networks. Broadband is located in Durham, NC.

Nortel Networks Corp. supplies end-to-end networking products and solutions serving both service providers and enterprise customers. It designs, develops, engineers, markets, sells, supplies, licenses, installs, services, and supports networking solutions worldwide. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

RGB Networks, Inc. provided network video processing solutions. The company was founded by Peter A. Monta and Edward A. Krause on May 05, 2001 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.