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21Vianet Group, Inc. is a prominent carrier-neutral Internet data center services provider based in Beijing, China. Established in 1996, the company specializes in offering a range of services including internet hosting, cloud computing infrastructure, and business VPN solutions. By delivering managed network services and enhancing the reliability, security, and speed of internet connections, 21Vianet aims to support businesses in optimizing their online operations. Its comprehensive suite of offerings positions the company as a key player in the Chinese internet services market.

Wine.com is an online wine retailer, offering selection, guidance, and convenience not found in brick and mortar stores. The company provides its customers access to the world’s largest wine store, with live chat wine experts available 7 days a week. With multiple distribution centers and the most sophisticated retail wine fulfillment network in the United States, Wine.com delivers in 1-2 days to most addresses, offering date-certain delivery and the convenience of shipping to 11,000 FedEx Office, Walgreens, and affiliated local pick-up sites. The company’s popular StewardShip program provides unlimited wine delivery and exclusive access to new releases for $49 per year. Recently launched, the Wine.com iOS app allows users to scan, rate, and purchase wines on the go. Wine.com’s mission, to inspire the wine lifestyle through innovation, is captured in its brand manifesto video, viewable here.

Wine.com is an online wine retailer, offering selection, guidance, and convenience not found in brick and mortar stores. The company provides its customers access to the world’s largest wine store, with live chat wine experts available 7 days a week. With multiple distribution centers and the most sophisticated retail wine fulfillment network in the United States, Wine.com delivers in 1-2 days to most addresses, offering date-certain delivery and the convenience of shipping to 11,000 FedEx Office, Walgreens, and affiliated local pick-up sites. The company’s popular StewardShip program provides unlimited wine delivery and exclusive access to new releases for $49 per year. Recently launched, the Wine.com iOS app allows users to scan, rate, and purchase wines on the go. Wine.com’s mission, to inspire the wine lifestyle through innovation, is captured in its brand manifesto video, viewable here.

Perseus, Inc. specializes in providing connectivity, managed hosting, market data, and time-as-a-service to a diverse clientele that includes finance, media, eCommerce, and iGaming sectors. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the company operates as a subsidiary of GTT Communications. Perseus is known for its high-speed global networks, colocation services, and trading technologies, catering to a range of clients from market makers and banks to exchanges and Fortune 500 companies. The company offers some of the fastest and most precise market-to-market routes across major financial hubs such as Chicago, New York, London, Frankfurt, São Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Singapore, and Johannesburg. Perseus has received multiple accolades for its innovative products and services, including recognition on the FinTech 50 Watchlist and placements in the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies.

Tikona Infinet, a subsidiary of Tikona Digital Networks, is a Mumbai-based provider of wireless broadband connectivity and related services, primarily targeting the domestic enterprise market. Established in 2008, the company operates an extensive IP network across 25 cities in India, with plans for expansion into tier-III and semi-urban areas. Tikona Infinet offers a range of services, including Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions, business mailing, and data center management, utilizing its wireless last mile access to ensure connectivity throughout India. The company emphasizes secure and reliable internet services, incorporating advanced infrastructure that meets global standards, and is known for its flexibility and scalability, which are essential for modern enterprises. By providing affordable high-speed internet options, Tikona aims to foster a broadband-enabled society, delivering comprehensive multimedia content and IT applications to both home and business customers.

Highwinds Network Group, Inc. is a prominent provider of content delivery network (CDN), storage, analytics, and cloud-based IP services. Founded in 2002 and based in Winter Park, Florida, the company offers a variety of solutions to enhance content delivery, including HTTP caching, secure delivery of digital assets, and a programmable CDN with custom logic. Highwinds also features specialized platforms such as a Game Delivery Network for online games and EveryStream for over-the-top video delivery. Their Highwinds Cloud Storage supports online storage needs, while Full Site Acceleration optimizes the delivery of multimedia content. The company serves diverse sectors, including media, gaming, advertising, and software, catering to both domestic and international clients. As of 2017, Highwinds operates as a subsidiary of StackPath, LLC.

Cloudary Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides literature and other publications through Websites, offline publication, and wireless distribution in the People’s Republic of China. It operates an online community-driven literary platform that includes six original literature Websites comprising Qidian.com, Readnovel.com, Hongxiu.com, Xs8.cn, Xxsy.net, and Rongshuxia.com covering an array of genres, such as fantasy, wuxia, science fiction, mystery, and romance. The company’s literary platform also provides community tools consisting of personal space, virtual gifting, book review bar, and forum.

CDNetworks is a full-service content delivery network that specializes in global cloud acceleration, focusing on transforming the Internet into a secure and high-performing application delivery network. With a unique advantage as the only multinational CDN with expertise and infrastructure in China, Russia, and other emerging markets, CDNetworks acts as a trusted partner for local markets while facilitating expansion into global markets. The company accelerates over 40,000 websites and cloud services through its extensive network of 140 Points of Presence (PoPs). Serving a diverse range of industries including finance, travel, e-commerce, learning management, high technology, manufacturing, and media, CDNetworks has been catering to enterprise customers for over 13 years. The company maintains offices in the United States, Korea, China, Japan, and the United Kingdom, providing comprehensive technology, network infrastructure, and customer services for the efficient delivery of Internet content and applications.

Edgio, formerly known as Limelight Networks, specializes in content delivery and edge cloud services. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services designed to enhance the delivery and management of digital content. Its offerings include video content management, live and on-demand video delivery, cloud security solutions, and cloud storage services. Edgio supports a diverse clientele, including traditional media companies from the television, music, and gaming sectors, as well as technology firms and government entities that operate online. The company operates private networks that facilitate the efficient delivery of websites, mobile applications, and APIs, ensuring high performance and security for its clients' digital assets across multiple regions, including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific.

Javelin Innovations(formerly Vyyo) supply broadband wireless access systems used by telecommunicationsservice providers to deliver wireless, high-speed data connections to business and residential subscribers. Their systems are deployed in point-to-multipoint applications at the radio frequencies licensed for two-way broadband communication. Point-to-multipoint technology refers to the ability of a central, wireless hub to transmit and receive network traffic to and frommultiple subscriber modems. Their systems are based on the Internet protocol, or IP, which is the networking standard used to deliver voice and data over the Internet. Networking standards are the special set of rules for communicating that the end points in a telecommunication connection use when they send signals back and forth. Their system is designed to allow service providers to support rapid and cost-effective broadband service roll-outs directly to business and residential subscribers. Service providers use their system to bridge the segment of the network that connects the service providers' systems directly to the subscribers, commonly referred to as the last mile.

Catena Networks develops broadband access systems that enable service providers to deploy voice, data, and video services. The company's products include The CNX-5 Broadband DSL System, a card-for-card upgrade solution for Lucent SLC-5 Digital Loop Carriers and The CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier that enables service providers to deploy integrated plain old telephone service (POTS) and digital subscriber line (DSL) services and deliver voice, data and video services over copper and fiber infrastructures. It caters to local exchange carriers, postal telephone and telegraph operators, and other service providers. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in California, US with an additional office in Morrisville, North Carolina.

New Edge Networks is a national provider of wholesale DSL services, focusing on small and mid-sized markets. The company specializes in delivering secure multi-site managed data networks and dedicated internet access. Its offerings include DSL internet connectivity for residential and business customers in small cities and semi-rural areas. Additionally, New Edge Networks provides various services such as wide area networks, virtual private networks, and frame relay, catering to the connectivity needs of its clients.

Catena Networks develops broadband access systems that enable service providers to deploy voice, data, and video services. The company's products include The CNX-5 Broadband DSL System, a card-for-card upgrade solution for Lucent SLC-5 Digital Loop Carriers and The CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier that enables service providers to deploy integrated plain old telephone service (POTS) and digital subscriber line (DSL) services and deliver voice, data and video services over copper and fiber infrastructures. It caters to local exchange carriers, postal telephone and telegraph operators, and other service providers. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in California, US with an additional office in Morrisville, North Carolina.

New Edge Networks is a national provider of wholesale DSL services, focusing on small and mid-sized markets. The company specializes in delivering secure multi-site managed data networks and dedicated internet access. Its offerings include DSL internet connectivity for residential and business customers in small cities and semi-rural areas. Additionally, New Edge Networks provides various services such as wide area networks, virtual private networks, and frame relay, catering to the connectivity needs of its clients.

Village Networks (www.villagenetworks.com) is leading the next wave of the Optical Internet with Optical Flow Networking, breakthrough technology that brings together the highest level of performance of intelligent routing and high-capacity optical networking in a single optical packet node. Village Networks was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Eatontown, NJ. Its more than 80 employees have exceptional depth of experience developing, marketing and delivering carrier-class products from companies including AT&T, Bay Networks, Bell Laboratories, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Rockwell International and Siemens.

Lantern Communications, founded in 1999 and based in Sunnyvale, California, specializes in packet-based transport systems that facilitate the scalable deployment of carrier-class networking solutions. The company enables service providers to deliver broadband Ethernet and other networking services across metropolitan area networks. In May 2004, Lantern Communications was acquired by C-COR, further enhancing its capabilities in the telecommunications sector.

With the continued growth of the Internet, improved streaming technologies, and the arrival of inexpensive high-bandwidth connections to households and businesses across the United States, the market for network-centric video applications is ready to explode. This is setting the stage for video to take a bigger role online, becoming one of the driving forces in the development of the Internet. Javu Technologies has created JavuNetwork and JavuNetplay - ASP-enabling video creation and management applications, which will give business owners and consumers the opportunity to edit, enhance, and integrate the many benefits of video into their Internet experience. JavuNetwork is a Java-based, network-centric multimedia content management application that gives individuals the ability to do high-powered video, image and audio editing right from their desktops over the Internet. JavuNetplay further simplifies the online non-linear content creation process through easy-to-use templates, allowing users to build videos directly from within an internet browser. They believe there is an excellent opportunity to incorporate the JavuNetwork and JavuNetplay ASP digital media editing and management services with every ISP’s and ICP’s content offerings.

InnoMedia, Inc. manufactures and supplies Internet, broadband Internet protocol (IP), telephony, and SIP trunking solutions to cable MSOs, broadband service providers, enterprises, OEMs, and distribution partners worldwide. The company offers SOHO and residential products, such as multimedia terminal adapters (MTAs) and internet protocol phones for home users and telecommuters; customer premise equipment; business voice solutions; cable solutions; IP videophones, and video set-top boxes; and network server products for converged internet protocol networks. It also provides business lines with multi-port ATAs; TDM PRI with PRI enterprise session border controllers; hosted service with SIP ALG; embedded cable modem modules; cable-embedded enterprise session border controllers; and element management systems. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is based in Milpitas, California. It has additional offices in Singapore; San Jose, California; Hsinchu, Taiwan; and Beijing and Wuhan, China.

iWon is an online search company that serves as a destination portal, integrating search capabilities with content and functionality. Backed by CBS, iWon offers a diverse portfolio of information retrieval products, including websites and desktop search applications. In addition to its search services, iWon features a games and sweepstakes platform that provides users with opportunities to win cash and merchandise prizes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, as well as instant win options. This combination of search functionality and prize incentives aims to engage users while enhancing their online experience.