ASSIA, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, has secured $10 million in strategic investment financing to support its work with Dynamic Spectrum Management software tools for DSL. ASSIA, which said it has more than 23 million lines under management with top tier service providers in North America and Europe, pioneered the application of DSM technologies to manage DSL networks.
New investors Mingly China Growth Fund and SFR Development joined previous investors Swisscom Ventures, Stanford University, and T-Venture in raising this round. http://www.assia-inc.com
- ASSIA stands for Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Incorporated.
- ASSIA is headed by Dr. John Cioffi, a veteran of the DSL industry, having served as founder, CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Amati prior to its acquisition by TI in 1997. Dr. Cioffi also held a tenured endowed professorship at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1985-2009, where he is now an active Professor Emeritus with small research efforts there in broadband access.
- In September, Ikanos Communications and ASSIA Inc., which specializes in Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) technology, announced a partnership to accelerate the deployment of vectored DSL technology. Under the agreement, Ikanos receives a license to ASSIA’s essential DSM patents and certain technology for the development of vectored DSL products — also known as DSM Level 3 — capable of delivering speeds of 100 Mbps and greater over existing copper loops. In addition, the two companies will co-market each others’ products to the network equipment and service provider industries.