Start-ups

Xten Networks has surpassed the 500,000 installation milestone for its SIP Softphone client. The company also announced the release of a new eyeBeam SIP softphone for MAC OS Xhttp://www.xten.com

Infinera, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $52 million in new funding for its Photonic Integrated Circuit technology. The company has raised $205 million to date. Strategic investors in...

Pactolus Communications Software is adding prepaid billing to its SIPware Broadband Telephony application running on its RapidFLEXApplication Server. Unlike fixed-price VoIP services offered currently by VoIP service providers, prepaid billing...

Siemens Venture Capital has made an equity investment in Propagate Networks, a start-up based in Acton, Massachusetts that is embedded cognitive radio software. The technology can be embedded in wireless...

Battery Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing in information technology companies, closed its seventh fund with $450 million of committed capital. The fund will be invested over a period...

Azaire Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $9 million in Series B financing for its Cellular/Wi-Fi convergence network solutions. Azaire's Converged Network Platform provides multi-authentication, integrated billing,...

Viola Networks has secured an additional $11.1 million in venture funding for its has secured an additional $11.1 million. Viola's NetAlly RealTime software can be used by service providers for...

Motorola Venture has made an equity investment in Bluefire Security Technologies, a start-up that addresses wireless security threats with centrally managed, multi- layered software. The company's flagship product, Bluefire Mobile...

CyOptics, a start-up based in Lehigh Valley, PA, secured $10 million in new financing for its optical engine technology for broadband metro and access communications solutions. CyOptics has developed "nano-tech"...

Chelsio Communications, a start-up offering 10-Gigabit Ethernet server adapters and protocol acceleration technology, announced the appointments of John Brennan, former Sun Microsystems engineering vice president, and Eric Taborek, former sales...

Azimuth Systems, a start-up based in Acton, Massachusetts, closed $10.5 million for its automated wireless network test platforms. Azimuth's W-Series Test Platform provides system level testing of 802.11 wireless access...

Propagate Networks, a start-up based in Acton, Massachusetts, raised $8 million in Series C venture funding for its embedded cognitive radio software. The technology can be embedded in wireless access...

Amedia Networks appointed Gary Feldman as Vice President of Marketing and Business Strategy. Feldman previously was the Vice President of Strategy in Lucent Technologies' Optical Networking Group. http://www.amedianetworks.comIn June 2004,...