Michael Scott

Bookham, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and provider of optical solutions for telecommunication optical networks. It designs, manufactures and markets optical components, modules and subsystems such as transmitters, network lasers and transceivers and has facilities in United Kingdom, two in the United States, one in Canada and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The company was founded in 1988 and is located in San Jose, CA.

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.

Centre of Excellence In Next Generation Networks (CENGN) is a non-profit organization based in Waterloo, Canada. CENGN provides a multi-vendor infrastructure composed of member in-kind contributions, including white-box servers and switches & open source software. The organization is committed to removing the barriers to commercialization, accelerating product introduction, and reducing product development time and costs. CENGN helps small and medium-sized Canadian technology companies accelerate their commercialization efforts. The residential broadband program offers flexible, lower-cost, higher-performance broadband access to residences in rural communities. Jean-Charles Fahmy has been the CEO of the Canadian company since 2018.