Bob Porras

Compaq Computer Corp. develops and manufactures a wide range of personal computing products. The company was located in Houston, TX.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Microsemi Communications, Inc. engages in the design, development, and market of integrated circuits that are used primarily by manufacturers of networking systems for carrier and enterprise networking applications. The company was founded by Louis R. Tomasetta and Ira Deyhimy in 1984 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

Sycamore Networks, Inc. engages in the development and marketing of intelligent bandwidth management solutions for fixed line and mobile network operators. The company was founded by Gururaj Deshpande on February 17, 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

The MITRE Corp. provides systems engineering, research and development and information technology support services. It offers federally funded research and development centers for the department of defense, the federal aviation administration, the internal revenue service and department of veteran affairs and the department of homeland security. The company was founded by Robert Everett in 1958 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Accolade Technology, Inc. provides technologically advanced, lossless packet capture and acceleration adapters. Its applications offers network monitoring, network and cyber security and forensics, in line deep packet inspection, test and measurement, network probes, video stream monitoring, high frequency trading latency measurement, application performance management, and high performance computing. The company was founded by Robbie Dhillon and Jon Sreekanth in 2003 and is headquartered in Franklin, MA.