Hot Start-ups

Vyatta, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, launched an online community aimed at developing an open source routing alternative to Cisco and Juniper. A beta version of the Vyatta...

EnVysion, a start-up based in Boulder, Colorado, raised $3 million in first round funding for its broadband video surveillance plans. EnVysion is developing an Internet-based platform to enable a service-based...

Oracle agreed to acquire Sweden-based HotSip AB, a provider of telecommunications infrastructure software and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) enabled applications for IP telephony, presence, messaging and conferencing on new converged...

Vativ Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, will supply its 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) copper transceiver for Occam Networks' next generation Intelligent Blade Interconnect Architecture. Using Vativ's transceiver...

Mazu Networks, a start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, closed $7 million in new funding for its behavior-based network security solutions. Mazu Profiler is a Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) system that...

Hammerhead Systems announced the appointment of Dr. Richard Gitlin as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Gitlin joins Hammerhead Systems after a distinguished 32-year career at Bell Labs and Lucent leading pioneering...

ThingMagic, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., has raised $21 million in financing to support the development of its radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. ThingMagic's Mercury4 RFID reader platform is...

Silver Peak Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $13 million in series B funding for its enterprise-class network acceleration appliances. Silver Peak is developing "Local Instance Networking"...

Mazu Networks, a start-up offering behavior-based network security solutions, named Charles Kaplan as chief security strategist. Previously, Kaplan was the chief information security officer for VeriSign Managed Security Services (MSS),...

Hammerhead Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed $30 million in Series C funding, for its traffic aggregation and switching platform. Hammerhead's HSX 6000 is a purpose-built Layer...

Siemens Venture Capital has made a strategic investment in G2 Microsystems, a start-up based in Oakland, California, that is developing chips for the Mobile Resource Management (MRM) market. Mobile resource...

Airwide Solutions, a start-up based in London, secured $25 million in Series D funding, for its mobile infrastructure software. Airwide supplies software to carriers for mobile messaging applications. Airwide is...

Wisair, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised US$20 million in Series C funding for its Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) chipset solutions. Wisair recently demonstrated its...