Liquidity is the byword at Liquidnet Holdings, an institution where loose lips are not tolerated. Through its Liquidnet H20 platform, the company has created an electronic marketplace for institutional trading that brings buyers and sellers together and lets them anonymously negotiate trades without intermediaries or information leaks. Its Liquidnet Insight unit provides analytics and other services to institutional investors. Liquidnet's global membership community of institutional firms today represents some $16 trillion in equity assets under management. The company operates mostly in the US as well as in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, and Europe. Liquidnet filed to go public in 2008.

BluTower is a global provider of cost-effective wireless automatic meter reading (AMR/AMI) systems to water, electricity and gas utilities as well as sub-metering users. A comprehensive range of water meters is also supplied. Products are sold under the BluTower brand. BluTower’s powerful AMR systems are employed commercially by water, gas and electric customers in many countries including the United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The powerful BluTower AMR solutions enable utilities and sub-metering users to instantly improve their customer service, cost-efficiency, meter reader safety and overall operational effectiveness. Our open systems approach to AMR provides the foundation of our solutions, enabling quick and easy integration into our customers’ existing metering infrastructure. Our use of standard interfaces and protocols enables our products to work with many types of billing software systems, hand-held computers and meters, ensuring that customers’ investment in existing systems are protected.BluTower has offices in the United Kingdom and the USA and an international distribution network covering the UK, North America, Mexico, Europe and Australasia. The BluTower goal is to provide fully-featured products and solutions at highly competitive prices to utility and sub- metering customers. Blue Tower Communications Ltd. is located in Aldershot, UK from where design and engineering is conducted. BluTower, Inc has offices in Ocala, FL and Cary, NC. The Cary office provides primary sales and technical support for the Utility market; Ocala supports the Sub-Metering sector and serves as our North American distribution facility.

With offices in Japan, USA, Germany, UK, Ireland, and Taiwan, Buffalo, Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of innovative network solutions for the home and business - from wireless networking and storage to memory and multimedia devices. Since 1975, Buffalo has proven its commitment to delivering innovative solutions that have put the company at the forefront of infrastructure technology. Buffalo's strong international industry alliances with companies including Intel, Broadcom, Agere and Microsoft enables Buffalo to lead the industry in the development of the latest technologies into practical, easy to use tools for business and the home.

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.

The NXTV System truly takes the guest experience to the next level, delivering HD entertainment, voice and data services to the hotel guestroom. An innovator since its founding in 1997, NXTV is continually expanding the range of services provided through its digital IP-over-Ethernet system. NXTV consistently leads the industry in the rate and breadth of new guest offerings, being the first to bring to the hospitality market such technologies as Voice over IP telephony (VoIP) and IPTV. The NXTV IP-based system provides hotel owners with a superior, next-generation technology solution, delivering a 100% digital signal, perfect picture quality and a wealth of content and services not available through legacy analog systems. The result? NXTV transforms the guestroom television from a passive, ordinary device into an interactive, dynamic and profitable asset. Our customers typically realize in-room revenues far in excess of the industry average, as well as a host of other powerful benefits.

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.

Iwatsu Electric was founded in 1938. From analog to digital, telecommunications pioneer Iwatsu Electric has moved its technology with the times. The company sells VoIP telephones for small offices and headsets for switchboard operators and TV/radio studios; test and measurement equipment, such as oscilloscopes and Blu-ray disc inspection machines; and hardware for the printing industry, such as ink jet platesetters. Major customers include Japan's Ministry of Defense, the Japan Post Office, J-Power, and broadcasting corporation NHK.

Xtera Communications shines a light on high bandwidth. Xtera company makes fiber-optic transmission equipment used in both the terrestrial and undersea sections of telecommunications networks. Its Nu-Wave systems increase the bandwidth capacity of fiber-optic strands, making converged voice and data communications possible. Xtera also offers load balancers and traffic management devices for wide area networks.Xtera company serves wholesale telecommunications carriers and other service providers; clients have included Pacnet. Xtera has attracted investments from a wide range of private equity firms, including Accel Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, ComVentures, New Enterprise Associates, and Sevin Rosen.

Frequency Electronics, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is now a well-established public company in Long Island, New York, and trades on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol FEIM. It has five wholly-owned subsidiaries: FEI Communications Inc. and FEI Government Systems Inc., located in Mitchel Field, New York; Gillam-FEi a.s., located in Liege, Belgium, near Brussels; FEI-Zyfer Inc., located in Garden Grove, California; FEI-Asia Ltd., located in the free trade zone in Tianjin, China. FEI and its subsidiaries are major worldwide suppliers of Precision Time and Frequency (PT&F) products for ground, seaborne, airborne, and space terminals and platforms used by commercial and government/military systems suppliers.In the mid-1990s, Frequency Electronics Company transformed itself from a defense contract manufacturer into a high-tech provider of precision time and frequency products used to synchronize voice, data and video transmissions in wireless communications systems. These systems are found in both ground-based stations and on-board commercial satellites. Frequency Electronics Company also continues to support the United States government with products for defense or space applications but it will do so with more emphasis on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products than on contract-based projects.

Hector Communications may not operate in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, but it does serve up local phone service in about two dozen rural communities in Minnesota and nearby states (powdermilk biscuits are optional). The holding company operates through nine facilities-based rural local- exchange carriers (RLECs) located in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. These operating subsidiaries maintain about 30,000 local access lines and offer Internet access. Hector and Alliance also provide cable TV service. Hector is owned by a consortium made up of three Minnesota local- exchange carriers: Arvig Enterprises, Blue Earth Valley Communications, and New Ulm Telecom.

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