SECURUS Technologies enables phone service for people who have a lot of time on their hands.SECURUS Technologies company primarily provides telecommunications services to about 2,200 correctional facilities across the US. It designs, installs, and maintains telecom systems that enable collect, prepaid, and debit calling for inmates. Other back- office services include billing and collection, call validation, and fraud management. Clients include city, state, and county jails, as well as juvenile detention institutions and private jails. The company's call connection services are made possible through contracts with regional and local exchange carriers. SECURUS is controlled by its majority owner, investment firm H.I.G. Capital.

ATEL Communications, Inc. company was founded in 1985 by owner Steven Handelman. ATEL Communications distributes communications network equipment to businesses in Southern California. The company specializes in systems used to enable office phone networks, messaging, call centers, and call accounting. While it deals primarily in products made by NEC, it also sells systems from vendors including 3Com, Mitel, and Hitachi among others. ATEL also offers such related services as voice and data cable installation and telecommunications consulting. ATEL serves such clients as hospitals, school districts, and city governments.

Reveo, a frontier-technology research and development corporation, was founded by Dr. Sadeg Faris, a prolific inventor with over 135 issued patents in his name and a successful track record of taking new technologies to the marketplace. He established Reveo with the mission to develop inventions on the frontiers of science and technology and turn them into products for the benefit of humanity. Since commencing operations in 1991, Reveo has successfully completed numerous technology development contracts for federal agencies and Fortune 500 corporations. Reveo continues to expand contract research and development activities to help finance promising technologies. The Reveo organization and subsidiaries consists of skilled people many of whom hold advanced degrees in science and technology.

LAKE was acquired by Inter-Tel in 2005 for $28 million. Inter-Tel was acquired by Mitel Networks in 2007. LAKE Communications is a manufacturer of telecommunications networking hardware and software. The company's products include wired (Centrex) and wireless (Airway) telephone systems, wireless data network connection points (HomeLink, NetLink, and OfficeLink), and associated networking software. LAKE supplies its products to other manurfacturers of communications procucts including Fujitsu and Motorola. The company's products are intended for use primarily in residential applications as well as in small businesses and corporate branch offices.

Crossbow Technology Inc. specializes in connecting the physical world to the digital world. Founded in 1995, the company is a leading supplier of low-cost, smart-sensor technology to military programs and high-value, asset- tracking operations. Crossbow has shipped more than half a million sensors to customers including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, EADS and Israel Aerospace Industries, as well as a leading global-logistics and shipping company. Crossbow is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

uVuMobile (formerly SmartVideo Technologies) has decided that the smart money is on mobile. The company -- which provides video streaming services to the corporate, educational, and government sectors using its proprietary SmartStream technology -- has turned its attention to the mobile entertainment market. In 2005 it launched a direct- to-consumer mobile video service, delivering television and video content (including content from ABC, MSNBC, Weather Channel, and FOX Sports) to SmartPhone cellular handsets and to Wi-Fi-enabled PDA devices. Merchant banker Forté Partners owns nearly a quarter of uVuMobile.

Law Enforcement Associates Corporation manufactures and markets products for law enforcement, military, security, and corrections markets worldwide. The company offers audio intelligence gathering equipment, including radio frequency disguised transmitters, receivers, and repeaters for use by law enforcement agencies. It offers video surveillance products ranging from disguised miniature cameras to video transmission and recording systems. The company provides audio surveillance receivers, wireless synthesized audio transmitters and repeaters, digital voice recorders, and overt or covert self-contained video recording devices, as well as wireless and wired video surveillance and monitoring systems, including cameras, wireless transmitters, and receivers under the AidVision brand. It also offers under vehicle inspection systems, under vehicle inspection screening software, and mobile specialty surveillance platforms. In addition, the company distributes global positioning system (GPS) vehicle tracking systems, security products, thermal imaging systems, night vision equipment, peerless handcuff and chains, defensive shields, and CCTV cameras. Law Enforcement Associates Corporation markets and distributes its products directly to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; state correctional facilities; the United States and allied military forces; private security personnel; and non-governmental agencies, and public and private companies. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Westell delivers the goods for communication service providers. The company's modems and routers enable high- speed data transmission between the broadband networks of communications service providers and their subscribers over standard phone lines. It also makes line protection and monitoring products, shelving, jacks, and plugs. Subsidiary Conference Plus offers audio-, video-, and Web-conferencing services. Westell markets its products in Canada and Europe, but the vast majority of its sales are made in the US. The company sells its DSL equipment directly to telecom carriers and ISPs and through distributors. AT&T and Verizon together account for more than half of sales.

BigBand Networks, Inc. develops, markets, and sells network- based platforms in the United States and internationally. The company’s network-based platforms enable cable operators and telecommunications companies to offer video services across coaxial, fiber, and copper networks. Its digital simulcast product application enables service providers to create a digital version of analog inputs, and deliver analog and digital video streams to subscribers. The company also offers BigBand Broadband Multimedia-Service Router, a platform that is used for the real-time processing and switching of video; BigBand Broadband Edge QAM, which converts digital video and data streams into quadrature amplitude modulated RF carriers that transport video and data across cable networks to subscriber set top boxes and cable modems; BigBand Media Services Platform, a chassis- based platform that enables service providers to offer personalized video applications; and Converged Video Exchange, a control plane solution designed to manage various numbers of video sessions, while optimizing network bandwidth utilization. In addition, it offers switched digital video solutions that enable service providers to transmit video channels to subscribers only when the subscribers in a service group are in the process of watching those channels; and broadcast video solutions, which enable digital media processing and transport technologies for service providers. Further, the company provides an alternative solution to deliver IP video services to home computers, IP set top boxes, and other IP consumer devices. BigBand Networks, Inc. sells its products in the United States and Canada primarily through its direct sales force; and internationally through a combination of direct sales to service providers and sales through independent resellers. BigBand Networks company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Talk is cheap but doesn't go far without a phone, especially in one of the world's largest continents. That's where Vodacom Group comes in. Through its various subsidiaries, the company provides contract and prepaid cellular phone services to more than 34 million customers in southern African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Lesotho, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The company primarily targets businesses and corporations for its contract services; however, a majority of Vodacom Group's customers use its prepaid services. About two-thirds of the company's shares are owned by UK-based Vodafone Group.

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