Start-ups

TeraChip, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California with R&D in Israel, raised $7.2 million for its next-gen switching fabrics. The funding was led by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital....

Yipes Enterprise Services raised $24 million in series C round funding led by San Francisco-based Crosslink Capital, along with existing Yipes' investors Norwest Venture Partners, JPMorgan Partners, LLC and Sprout...

Trapeze Networks, a supplier of WLAN systems, raised $17.5 million in third-round Series C funding, bringing the total investment in the company to $67.5 million. Trapeze offers a secure wireless...

Brix Networks raised $5 million in fifth round of venture capital funding for its VoIP performance management and service assurance solutions. The latest series of financing was led by new...

Nominum, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, raised $16 million in new funding for its IP address infrastructure solutions for Global 2000 companies. Nominum's Foundation product family includes scalable,...

TelASIC Communications, a start-up based in El Segundo, California, raised $26 million in Series D funding for its high-performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and sub-systems for the 3G...

Broadcom completed its acquisition of Zeevo, a provider of semiconductor solutions for Bluetooth wireless headset products, for $32.0 million -- approximately $31.3 million in cash consideration and $0.7 million in...

Xeround Systems, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, raised $6.5 million in venture funding for its scalable signaling solutions for VoIP and next generation IP services. Xeround said it addresses...

Siemens is broadening its start-up investment focus from wireless technologies to cover the entire communications sector. To reflect this new mandate, Siemens Mobile Acceleration (SMAC) is changing its name to...

Nantero, a start-up based in Woburn, Massachusetts. Raised $15.5 million for its work in developing carbon nanotubes for next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero's main focus is the development of "NRAM" --...

Colubris Networks, a start-up based in Waltham, Mass., secured $15 million in its third institutional round of funding for its WLAN systems. Colubris said it now has over 1,000 customers...

Coaxsys, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, is supplying its IPTV in-home networking solution to McDonough Telephone Cooperative of Illinois. McDonough is the first member of the Western Illinois...

General Bandwidth raised $18 million in new financing for its VoIP equipment. General Bandwidth supplies its G6 Universal Media Gateway platform, which is a carrier class VoIP services platform with...