Horizon has a long history of innovation and community involvement. From being among the first in the state to offer cable television and Internet service, to expanding its broadband capabilities from its original 700-square mile service area to an area of 34 counties throughout southern and eastern Ohio. Horizon is committed to offering its customers the latest in advanced broadband data services, voice, digital video, security and monitoring services. The company supports many organizations, including the United Way, PACCAR Medial Educational Center, the Chillicothe Paints Baseball Club, Junior Achievement, 4H, Red Cross and more.

NetWolves won't let unauthorized users -- no matter how much they huff and puff -- into your network. NetWolves company resells telecom services, including inbound and outbound long-distance calling, VoIP, and travel cards; voice services account for about half of the company's sales. NetWolves' WolfPac platform, which combines networking hardware and software, provides multiple user access and security for small and midsized businesses. Optional features include Internet access control, virtual private network (VPN) modules, and intrusion detection systems. NetWolves filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors in 2007 and emerged from the court-supervised reorganization the following year.

LightSquared (formerly SkyTerra) has staked a claim on the satellite communications market. The company provides voice and data communications to subscribers in North America via two geostationary satellites. LightSquared sells directly and through a group of about 40 dealers and resellers. The company also markets bulk capacity to other wireless service providers. In 2010 Harbinger Capital Partners bought the 52% of SkyTerra that it did not already own for $262 million in cash; it combined the company with other investments to form LightSquared.

Applied Signal Technology, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Applied Signal Technology, Inc. provides intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions for the defense, intelligence, and homeland security markets. The company’s Broadband Communication Systems division offers broadband communication technology and network solutions for high speed communications. Its network solutions include communication support equipment and software for bandwidth compression, encrypting and decrypting traffic, multiplexing and demultiplexing traffic from multiple communication streams, conducting deep packet inspection for network traffic monitoring and management, and performing real-time network quality assessment. Its Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Systems division provides research and development for the collection and analysis of tactical wireless communications and electronic intelligence. This division’s COMINT products include wideband processors and collection products. The company’s Network Intelligence division provides post-collection intelligence analysis tools, such as human language technology, cloud computing, complex event processing, and advanced data operations. Its Sensor Systems division offers sensor signal processing solutions for space-based, airborne, terrestrial, and undersea sensor technologies. Its sensor processing products consist of digital signal processing hardware and software to automatically process the results of raw sensor data to detect abnormalities of interest. This division’s sensor solutions include synthetic aperture sonar, radar, magnetic, and explosive detection products. These systems are designed to detect abnormalities in the marine environment, such as the presence of a submarine, mines tethered to the ocean floor, and terrorist activities. The company’s customers include the United States Government and defense industry prime contractors for the United States Government.

Nuvio is a hosted business and communications service provider offering a full suite of award-winning business solutions targeted to small and medium-sized organizations. Nuvio’s range of business systems are based on cloud computing technology and utilize the latest advances in internet delivery mechanisms and custom designed switching fabric to improve efficiency and decrease overhead for the end-user.Since its establishment in 2003, Nuvio has contributed to numerous advances in internet-based services with their heavy commitment to research & development. Nuvio remains dedicated to advancing technology and is staged to remain at the forefront of a quickly progressing business solution marketplace in years to come.

Boost Mobile is hoping to get a rise out of the young and the restless mobile phone market. A subsidiary of Sprint Nextel, the unit sells the parent company's mobile services on a prepaid basis across the US, marketing simplified payment plans primarily to the youth market. Boost Mobile, which has more than 3 million subscribers, also offers prepaid calling cards sold under the Re-Boost brand. Because Boost Mobile tailors the marketing message for its products and services to a younger demographic, the company's mobile data services and entertainment offerings are a central part of its product package. These services include text messaging, wireless Internet access, and games.

WCI is an award-winning next-generation voice and data service provider. Since 1995, we have been building custom telecommunications solutions for dynamic emerging and enterprise market leaders requiring seamless and cost- effective business connectivity. Our expert service and technical staff search out, implement, and maintain voice and data solutions that deliver between 15 to 40 percent savings over traditional carriers.

Sonaecom deals with the constantly sonant and the electronic sonic. The Portuguese company is the subsidiary of the Sonae Group involved in the areas of mobile communications, wireline communications, multimedia, and the Internet. Its mobile phone network, Optimus, is one of only three such companies in Portugal. Additional subsidiaries include WeDo, Publico, Optimus Home . Sonaecom serves about 3 million customers. France Telecom owns 20% of the company; Sonae Group holds the majority ownership.

DiCon Fiberoptics, Inc. company was founded in 1986; in 1999 Global Fiberoptics (Taiwan-based manufacturing and sales subsidiary) was formed. CEO Ho-Shang Lee owns about 24% of DiCon Fiberoptics. DiCon is an icon when it comes to filtering, splitting, attenuating, switching, combining, and monitoring. DiCon Fiberoptics makes passive optical components (including MEMS devices), modules, and test instruments for the fiber optics communication industry. Market focus is in Optical Communications, Test/Measurement, Military/Defense, Biomedical, and Fiberoptic Sensing/Lighting. Customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and Tellabs.

Founded in 1994, the company has offices in Brazil, Hong Kong, the UK, and the US. iDirect is a subsidiary of VT Systems, the US headquarters of Singapore Technologies Engineering. iDirect Technologies bypasses the wired world and heads straight for the heavens. The company provides networking equipment that allows broadband access over satellite networks. Service providers and network operators use its hubs, routers, and network accelerators to offer satellite-based Internet Protocol (IP) services and to optimize bandwidth usage. iDirect also sells to government agencies and large enterprises; its customers have included BT and the National Guard.

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