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  AirPlay Network Inc. - San Francisco, California. AirPlay Networks provides a platform for wireless large scale multi-player games based on real-time television events.



Acquired by Cable & Wireless
Exodus Communications - Santa Clara, California. Exodus provides website Data Center facilities to businesses that view the Internet as mission critical. Exodus' Data Centers offer state-of-the-art facilities to house and monitor web servers as well as a nationwide scaleable, redundant, power protected, high bandwidth ATM network with connection to the major Interexchange Providers. Exodus had an IPO in 1999 and was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2002.




Acquired by West Corporation
  Intrado Inc.  ( formerly SCC Communications )  - Boulder, Colorado. Intrado provides 911 operations support systems to local exchange carriers and wireless carriers in the United States. The company operates the Intrado National Data Services Center, a 911 service bureau with over 70 million subscriber data records under management throughout North America. Intrado had an IPO in 1998. (NASDAQ: TRDO)


  Openwave Systems, Inc.  ( formerly Phone.com and Unwired Planet )  - Redwood City, California. Openwave is a software company that allows the wireless carriers and cellular phone manufacturers to offer cellular phone users access and data communications with the Internet and intranet databases. Openwave - Phone.com had an IPO in 1999. Phone.com merged with Software.com in 2000, forming Openwave Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPWV).




Acquired by Cisco Systems
  Sheer Networks, Inc. - San Jose, California & Petach-Tikva, Israel. Sheer Networks provides large enterprises and communications service providers with an industry's first highly accurate, 'active network intelligence' management platform call the Sheer ™ BOS. The Sheer ™ BOS's scalability, upgradeability and ability to leverage existing equipment increase customers' profitability and network reliability.




Acquired by Avaya
  Ubiquity Software Corporation - Newport, United Kingdom.  Ubiquity is the leader in the development of advanced software products that enable service providers (telephone companies, Internet service providers, and application service providers) to offer next-generation, value-added, enhanced telephony and data services. The software is unique in that it allows service providers and third-party developers to easily design services 'straight to the desktop', rather than only for the network. Ubiquity had an IPO in 2005 on the AIM Market of The London Stock Exchange (AIM:UBQ)


  Vantrix, Inc. - Montreal, Canada.  Vantrix is a leading provider of content adaptation platforms and services to carriers and content owners for optimized delivery of multi-media content to wireless devices.


   
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