Hassan Parsa

TPACK provides SOFTSILICON solutions to Telecom Equipment Manufacturers that enable them to build systems faster and with lower risk, but also allowing new functionality to be added both during development and in the field. Since 2001, TPACK has been providing some of the world's largest telecommunication equipment manufacturers with leading edge technology and solutions for efficient packet transport. Specifically, TPACK provides the chip solutions and the supporting software that implement the intelligence in telecom systems. TPACK's experience and expertise in both data and telecom networks has proven to be decisive in TPACK's success to date.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Formed in 1998, Lucent Venture Partners is the venture capital subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LU) based in Murray Hill, New Jersey.