Gooch & Housego (G&H) manufactures precision optical components. The company's products are designed primarily for use in light measurement instrumentation and crystal manufacturing. It was founded in 1948 to make precision glass and crystalline materials; it still makes precision optics, such as coatings, lenses, prisms, and mirrors. G&H also offers acousto-optic devices, such as frequency shifters, tunable filters, fiber-coupled modulators, and standard and custom Q-switches. In 2007 G&H acquired SIFAM Fibre Optics for £5 million. The next year it bought the assets and business of General Optics from GSI Group for $21 million. Gooch & Housego PLC company does much of its business in North America.

PetaComm, Inc. is developing optical cross-connect (OCX) switches based on liquid crystal technology for use in network data communications. Founder and chairman Sadeg Faris also established HYPRES, a superconducting technology firm. A prolific inventor and native of Libya who once worked for IBM Research, Faris advocates advanced technology development in Third World countries. The technologist is the majority owner of Reveo, PetaComm's parent. PetaComm has yet to formally introduce a product. No, PetaComm doesn't handle communications for PETA, the activist animal-rights group.

Vicorp Group PLC provides call processing software systems to telecommunications providers, wireless carriers, and ISPs worldwide. The Vicorp.xMP suite of products enables providers to manage customer calls by matching them to computerized information and centralizing network phone and e-mail support. Its technology also allows for voice-activated dialing and automated menu navigation. The company sells its products through distribution partnerships with Genesys and Nuance, among others. Vicorp's customers include AES and Bell Canada. The company was publicly held until 2009, when its shares were delisted from the London Stock Exchange.

Glowpoint is a leading provider of advanced video communications solutions. Our suite of advanced and robust telepresence and video communications service solutions empower global organizations to dramatically enhance the impact and productivity of their internal and external communications, while reducing their ongoing operating costs.They achieve this for our customers by providing a full suite of telepresence and video conferencing managed services, and by enabling secure business-to-business video communications. As a recognized leader in video-over-IP services, our track record and quality-of-service commitments have earned us various industry awards and credits for providing an innovative customer experience through our use of IP-based video functionality and advanced managed services.They provide a comprehensive service offering for enterprises and their end users that can support any of the telepresence and video conferencing products available today. Currently, we support thousands of video communications systems in more than 35 countries with our 24/7 managed video services. We power Fortune® 500 companies, major broadcasters, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as global carriers and video equipment manufacturers, and their customers, around the world.

Sirti strings together the wires that carry conversations around the world. The company's subsidiaries design, construct, and maintain telecom infrastructure worldwide. With thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cable under its belt, Sirti (formerly the telephone equipment unit of Telecom Italia) installs networks, base stations for satellite links, and wireless communications systems. It also constructs traffic control and signaling systems for highways and railways, installs power transmission and distribution lines for electric utilities, and produces software for network management.

Expedite Video Conferencing Services, a worldwide voice and video solution provider, specializes in providing a broad range of products and services of the highest quality and security to its customers. Since 1996, Expedite has successfully designed and delivered custom and standard voice and video conferencing solutions to federal, state and local government agencies, as well as private and corporate accounts ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in a diverse range of market verticals all over the world.Expedite's award-winning solutions have been implemented worldwide in the vertical markets of distance learning, government, corporate, telejustice, telemedicine, and others. Expedite's years of experience and commitment to its customers in these verticals is unmatched in the industry. Expedite also provides a suite of managed services to meet all the voice and video needs of its broad array of loyal customers. Expedite offers easy accessibility webcasting solutions in which any meeting can be broadcast live or archived over the internet.

Eesti Telekom is a holding company for telecommunications and tehnology companies in the Baltic country of Estonia. Subsidiary Elion Enterprises serves about 500,000 customers with fixed-line telephone service, while about 300,000 subscribers access the Internet over its network. Eesti also offers digital television programming under the digiTV brand. Other services include Web hosting and business data storage. Wireless subsidiary EMT has about 800,000 prepaid and postpaid cell phone subscribers. Through subsidiary MicroLink, the company offers IT services to businesses. Stockholm-based TeliaSonera increased its 60% stake in Eesti to 100% in late 2009 when it bought out the Republic of Estonia's minority stake.

KVH Industries, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets mobile communication products for the marine, land mobile, and in-flight markets, as well as navigation, guidance, and stabilization products for the defense and commercial markets primarily in North America and Europe. Its mobile communications products and airtime services include TracVision and TracPhone systems, and mini-VSAT broadband airtime, which enable customers to receive live digital television, telephone, and Internet services in their marine vessels, recreational vehicles, automobiles, and commercial airplanes through satellite services. The company’s guidance and stabilization products consist of precision fiber optic gyro based systems that help stabilize platforms, such as gun turrets, remote weapon stations, and radar units, as well as provides guidance for munitions; and tactical navigation systems that offer access to navigation and pointing information in a range of military vehicles, including tactical trucks and light armored vehicles. In addition, KVH Industries leases its products directly to end users. Its guidance and stabilization products are used in various commercial applications, including precision mapping, autonomous vehicles, train location control and track geometry measurement systems, industrial robotics, and optical stabilization. The company sells its mobile communications products through an international network of retailers, distributors, and dealers; and guidance and stabilization products directly to the United States and allied governments, and government contractors, as well as through an international network of authorized independent sales representatives. KVH Industries, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Middletown, Rhode Island.

Huawei Technologies knows the importance of good connections. Huawei Technologies company is China's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. It makes a broad range of products, including core voice and data switching platforms for communications service providers. Huawei also makes optical networking systems, wireless network infrastructure, corporate networking equipment, and network management and messaging software. Other products include servers and data storage systems, mobile phone handsets, consumer networking equipment, and videoconferencing systems.

Transatel targets travelers. The company offers discounted international wireless phone services aimed at European frequent travelers. As a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), it resells the service under its own brand but delivers it through other carriers' networks. The company's proprietary smart chip turns all international calls -- incoming and outgoing -- into domestic calls. Since its start in 2000, Transatel has expanded beyond its French roots to operations in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK. Investors in the company include a French government agency that invests in young businesses and the venture capital firm Pyramid Technology Ventures.

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