Hikari Tsushin means "brilliant communication" in Japanese, and when the company was founded in 1999 it rode the dot-com bubble and boom quite brilliantly. Since then Hikari Tsushin has evolved into a cell phone and Internet service provider and distributor, a life insurance agency, and a seller of office equipment, such as copiers, fax machines, and telephones. The company's e-machitown subsidiary provides Web hosting services in Japan, and Newton Financial Consulting sells medical insurance policies to individiuals. CEO Yasumitsu Shigeta founded Hikari Tsushin in 1988, when he was 21 years old. The billionaire is consistenly listed among the world's richest people.

"For sales, press one. For accounts, press two." Heard that before? Opal Telecom enables these recordings by offering voice and data telecommunications services to corporate clients, small to midsized businesses, and public sector agencies in the UK. In addition to providing business telephony and Internet services over its network, the company distributes and supports communications hardware and software and provides managed network hosting and security services. While Opal's core service area is located in England, it also provides service in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Opal is owned by The Carphone Warehouse Group and operates as part of that company's TalkTalk home telephone and Internet sevices business.

PointOne's foundation reaches back to 1998 when our core team of visionary executives recognized that existing telecommunications providers were failing to respect the most important factor governing the long-term success of any business; first-rate customer service at an affordable price. PointOne was founded on the principle that extraordinary customer service paired with a network that enhances quality and saves money are the essential prerequisites to financial success. With over 250 years of combined experience in telecommunications and information technology, PointOne's executive team has crafted a unique corporate culture that emphasizes "people" as the essential corporate asset and "strategic partnerships" as the foundation for long-term business growth.

Sonim Technologies makes products that make mobile voice- over-IP communications better. The company manufactures servers and software that allow mobile wireless carriers to provide features like push-to-talk (walkie-talkie) and direct voice messaging. The company has also produced a rugged GSM mobile phone designed for use in harsh environments. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has additional offices in India, Italy, Sweden, and the UK. It has also acquired a software development center in Bangalore, India. Investors include 3i, Accel Partners, Apax Partners, and BV Capital.

Telmar Network Technology helps communications providers expand and maintain their networks. The company supplies new and used telecommunications and data networking equipment to network service providers, OEMs, and enterprises. It also supplies a broad range of supply and network support services, including multi-vendor repair, spares management, technical support, asset disposition, and logistics and warehousing programs. Serving customers worldwide, the company has operations in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Telmar Network Technology is a portfolio company of private equity giant Warburg Pincus.

BT Group plc operates as a communications services company. It offers fixed lines, broadband, mobile, and television (TV) products and services, as well as networked IT services. It operates in four segments: BT Global Services, BT Retail, BT Wholesale, and Openreach. The BT Global Services segment provides networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic businesses, government departments, and other communications providers worldwide. The BT Retail segment provides audio, video and internet collaboration services; directory enquiries, operator and emergency services, and phone book; software and IT services for retailers; street, managed, prison, card, and private payphones; and alarm monitoring and tracking facilities. This segment serves corporate, small and medium enterprises, consumer, and wholesale markets in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland. The BT Wholesale segment offers broadband, voice, and data connectivity services, interconnect to bespoke and managed network outsourcing, and value-added solutions to the communications providers in the United Kingdom. The Openreach segment connects communications providers’ customers to their local telephone exchange, giving them access to the U.K. network. The company was formerly known as Newgate Telecommunications Limited and changed its name to BT Group plc in September 2001. BT Group plc was founded in 1981 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

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.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks, services, and products for large enterprises, service providers, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet® encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies.Hughes owns and operates service businesses in the US, Europe, India, and Brazil, delivering continent-wide HughesNet broadband satellite connectivity along with an ever growing range of applications. Major enterprise customers include many Fortune 1,000 companies in virtually every vertical sector. HughesNet consumer/SMB subscribers now number over 500,000, making Hughes the largest provider of high-speed satellite Internet access in the U.S.

China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. is a technology systems integrator, an original design manufacturer (ODM) and value added reseller (VAR) of major global technology brands in the rapidly developing Chinese domestic market. Additionally, China Crescent offers technology outsourcing services.A US-based company with operations in China, China Crescent has grown over the past few years to over $45 million in annual revenue. China Crescent is also working to expand to other growing economic markets where high quality, affordable technology needs are on the rise, to include Southeast Asia and East Africa.Within China, China Crescent provides technology services and products including notebook and desktop computers, printers, servers, and network equipment from a number of well-known global brands such as Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, Sony, Epson, Canon and Sanyo. The Company is also an authorized reseller of operating systems, databases, middleware and application software from brands such as Microsoft, Red Hat, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, BEA, Veritas and others.

Axsun Technologies, founded in 1999, is developing a bold new approach to the design and manufacture of miniaturized optical micro-instruments for a variety of industries. The Axsun™ Packaging Platform combines proprietary Micro-Optics lens technology, and patented micro-alignment structures with a highly scalable, automated assembly process to create the foundation of a new class of miniature optoelectronic products. Axsun optoelectronic products provide higher levels of performance in much less space than bulk optical solutions while consuming less material, labor, and power. At Axsun, we're making great strides in a new direction for mechanical-optical integration of instruments by thinking small, and we see no end to the possibilities.

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