Start-ups

GigaBeam, a start-up based in Herndon, Virginia, announced the private placement of $18.9 million stated value of the company's Series B convertible preferred stock and common stock purchase warrants to...

NexTone Communications raised $35 million in Series D funding for its distributed and intelligent session management solutions for VoIP and other real-time IP services. NexTone, which has provided intelligent session...

Identity Engines, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, introduced enterprise-grade appliance designed to provide centrally-managed network identity management to ensure that only authorized users are granted access to the...

Siemens Acceleration in Communications made an equity investment in Idiro Technologies, a start-up based in Dublin, Ireland. Siemens was joined in this first round of funding by Enterprise Ireland, the...

Tropic Networks, a developer of Wavelength Tracker powered DWDM systems, named David Orr as is Executive Chairman. Before joining Tropic Networks, Mr. Orr was an operating partner at JP Morgan...

Fabric7 Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, debuted its family of high-performance servers designed for fabric computing. Fabric7 has worked with AMD to develop a new approach to...

CloudShield Technologies, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $$10 Million in additional funding for its multigigabit, open network services platform for security, VoIP, and traffic management applications. CloudShield's CS-2000...

Siemens Acceleration in Communications has made an equity investmnet in GlooLabs, a start-up offering software for remote access to multimedia content. GlooLabs' GlooNetT is a Java-based platform that allows digital...

BelAir Networks, a start-up offering wireless broadband solutions for metro-scale deployments, completed a Series C financing led by Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC) and McLean Watson Capital. The Series C financing...

Santa Cruz Networks released a group video plug-in enabling Skype users to see who they are talking to, share applications, and engage in immersive video experiences. The "Festoon" plug-in uses...

NetworkStreaming, a start-up based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, closed $6 million in second round funding for its SSL appliance-based remote support solutions. NetworkStreaming's SSL appliance enables any remote PC to initiate...

Reef Point Systems, a start-up developing carrier-class security solutions for converged wireless and wireline networks, has appointed Dennis Racca as Vice President of Engineering. Raca co-founded Northchurch Communications, which pioneered...

Strix Systems, a start-up offering wireless mesh networking solutions, named Nan Chen as its vice president of marketing. Chen is the president of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and founding...