Mehdi Ghasem

Sonus, Inc. provides networked solutions for communications service providers and enterprises to help them advance, protect, and unify their communications and improve collaboration. Its products include session border controllers, policy/routing servers, media and signalling gateways and network analytics tools. The company's solutions address the need for communications service providers and enterprises to seamlessly link and leverage multivendor, multiprotocol communications systems and applications across their networks, around the world and in a rapidly changing ecosystem of IP-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. Sonus was founded in August 1997 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Alcatel-Lucent SAS engages in the provision of communications solutions to telecommunications companies, Internet service and data providers. It develops and integrates technologies, applications and services to offer global communications services. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Telica, Inc. manufactures telecommunication products. Its products enable service providers to deploy multiple network topologies ranging from single TDM or packet-based end offices to nationwide communications networks. The company offers services to the telecommunication and information technology industries. Telica was founded by John Amand in 1998 and is located in Marlboro, MA

Ascend Communications Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and services wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. Lucent Technologies has acquired Ascend Communications, Inc.