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Ascend Communications, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, and corporate customers worldwide. Its products include MAX family of integrated access switches, Relay switches, the SA family of broadband access products, the Multiservice CBX 500 ATM Switch and GX 550 core ATM switch, the family of Intelligent Networking solutions, and the Pipeline family of routers. The company is based in Alameda, California. As of June 24, 1999, Ascend Communications, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc.

Spring Tide is a Texas-based computer hardware company.

HydraWeb Technologies, Inc. builds and installs hardware and software systems that allow data network operations in financial service sector. It provides a fault-tolerant Web system that allows Webmasters and system administrators to load-balance large volumes of http requests across multiple servers or logical content clusters.

NaviPath provides a complete Online Relationship Marketing solution, The NaviOne™ Solution Suite, combining leading-edge Internet access with branding, customer care, and subscriber and revenue management services. NaviOne lets organizations deepen relationships with customers and members by offering them value-added, branded Internet services. NaviPath delivers Internet access solutions that help organizations broaden market coverage – and build competitive advantage – without the risk of investing millions in infrastructure or technology. Our comprehensive private-label Internet access solutions are supported by a leading edge, high-availability national network, and value-added network and information services. With NaviPath, you can offer high quality, scalable, branded Internet services to your customers. The NaviPath Technology Platform is a unique network architecture that provides unprecedented price/performance and a superior Internet experience for end-users. It aggregates multiple local calling areas into NaviPOPs, deploys advanced switch-bypass technology to eliminate busy signals, and employs private transit Internet connectivity to avoid congested public peering points on the Internet.

Spring Tide is a Texas-based computer hardware company.

As of February 26, 1999, Kenan Systems Corporation was acquired by Lucent Technologies Inc. Kenan Systems Corporation is a developer of third party billing, order processing and customer analysis software. It was founded in 1982 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Telica is a telecommunications solution company that provides intelligent broadband switching systems for service providers to deploy highly dependable data and voice services over the new public network. Telica solutions aggregate, simplify and normalize the switching and transport of voice and data sessions, independent of narrowband or broadband access, through a unified broadband packet network.

Excel Switching Corporation is a provider of carrier-class, open services platforms for original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, and self-developing service providers worldwide. The Converged Services Platform (CSP), is the first open services platform that addresses carriers' needs for profitable applications by bridging the existing wired and wireless networks, as well as IP networks. By working closely with its application partners, Excel provides customers with highly reliable, localized solutions designed to meet their immediate and future needs.

SyChip Inc. designs, develops and markets Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Chip Scale Modules for the wireless Internet appliance market. The company focuses on developing highly integrated RF modules that are differentiated because of proprietary integration, modular architectures, and low loss Silicon technologies. As a result of the proprietary silicon substrate SyChip’s RF designs are more predictable and easier to simulate, thus reducing time-to-market, increasing performance and improving reliability.

Agere Systems (formerly Lucent ME) is a network processor company providing datacom and telecom equipment manufacturers with powerful multi-protocol solutions for complex Layer 2 through 7 processing. Agere was founded to develop and commercialize a proven, patented technology for the construction of wire-speed programmable routers, switches and network management equipment. Agere enables system vendors to provide carriers, service providers and enterprises with the ability to quickly offer new OC-12, OC-48, and Gigabit Ethernet services.

Yurie designs, manufactures, markets and services ATM access equipment for telecommunications service providers, corporate end users and government end users. ATM is a standard for packaging and switching digital information that facilitates high speed information transmission with a high degree of efficiency. End users of telecommunications services have traditionally maintained separate WANs for transmitting voice, data, video and other electronic information among geographically dispersed locations.

Riverstone Networks provides network switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. The company's routers and switches supply features such as bandwidth allocation, traffic accounting, application prioritization, and internet routing. Riverstone also offers line cards (circuit boards that serve as ports for switches) for upgrading the bandwidth capacity of existing equipment. Riverstone currently operates as a part of Lucent, a reseller of the company's products.

Chromatis Networks designs metropolitan area switching systems to alleviate problems with transferring from long distance carriers to local networks. Its Metropolis System integrates data packets, voice circuit, and video services together on metropolitan networks and combines this traffic onto a wave division multiplexing WDM system.

BlueStar Communications went out of business. Bluestar Communications Group, Inc. provided broadband communications and Internet services to small- and medium-sized businesses in Tier II and Tier III cities in US, as of December 31, 1999. Its Internet access services, which were packaged with Web hosting and e-mail, and its high-speed real private networking services were provided using the Digital Subscriber Line technology. The company also offered broadband solutions, including unbundled network element T1.