TDF Investment Themes
- Increasing Broadband Access
- Facilitating the HD / Digital Content Transition
- Homeland Security
- Public Safety & Disaster Recovery
- Protecting Intellectual Property
- Spectral Efficiency
- Compliance
- Colubris
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Colubris Networks is a global provider of multiservice Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems for enterprises and service providers, delivering highly scalable, flexible solutions for wireless voice, data, and video networking. Colubris solutions make it easy and affordable for organizations to give their employees, guests, customers, suppliers, and partners mobile access to network services. For more information.
- Inlet
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Inlet Technologies provides professional encoding solutions for high-definition content creation and distribution. Inlet's solutions combine the leading advanced compression encoding format with proprietary analysis tools to enable intelligent, real-time encoding of high-definition content for the post-production, broadcast and IPTV markets.
- Overture
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Headquartered in North Carolina's high-tech center, Research Triangle Park. Overture Networks has assembled a veteran team with extensive experience delivering edge solutions to carriers-experience rooted in IP, Ethernet, and TDM technologies and the specific problems metro carriers face in a hybrid TDM/packet world.
- mindSHIFT
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With operations in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., mindSHIFT is a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) offering managed IT services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), VoIP, compliance and professional services to small and medium-sized organizations. The company's portfolio of managed services provides a comprehensive solution which includes such critical services as email management and administration, electronic backup for servers and desktops, virus and spam protection, desktop support, and server management - either at the customers' premises or completely off-site. Managed services customers are supported by both a 24-hour Network Operations Center for proactive management support and a call center which diagnoses and resolves all end-user desktop issues. For advanced and larger businesses, the company provides business application migrations, storage area network upgrades and complex hosting applications. Additionally, mindSHIFT has superior expertise and experience in meeting the compliance requirements of financial services firms, as well as the complex demands of the legal community for the integration of applications such as document management.
- Aztek
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Aztek Networks provides True Emergency Stand Alone (True ESA™) switching and IP media gateway solutions. Our Remote Switch Gateway products with True ESA enable service providers to seamlessly execute a gradual migration towards VoIP and IMS-based networks while enhancing the reliability of their voice services.
Aztek Networks' unique and patent-pending True ESA ensures that all customers, even those served from field cabinet equipment in remote locations, maintain critical connections to emergency 911 services.
- Ooma
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Ooma uses peer-to-peer technology to transmit voice calls over the Internet (VoIP). The Company designs and markets the Ooma hub, a device that plugs into a user's broadband connection and offers many features, including free long distance calls, voicemail and an optional second phone line usage.
- Arxan
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The Arxan companies provide products and services to protect valuable intellectual property from tampering and theft. Our products are based on advanced technology developed at CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security), a highly ranked academic research institute and NSA Center of Excellence in Information Assurance at Purdue University.
Arxan Technologies provides fortified deployment products and services for commercial desktop and embedded products and for secure multimedia products and applications. Arxan Defense Systems provides anti-tamper technology integration services and proprietary security solutions to the U.S. Government and its contractor community.
- SkyeTek
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SkyeTek™ develops reader technology that allows customers to embed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as a feature into their products, applications and solutions enabling increased security, safety, productivity and competitive differentiation.
SkyeTek focuses on four markets: Access Control & Payment, Item-level Inventory, Patron Management, and Product Authentication.
- RPM Communications
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RPM Communications is a venture-backed startup company that develops and operates innovative telecommunications services for consumers and businesses. RPM is a fast moving, highly creative company that is creating new voice services that let people communicate more efficiently.
Our initial service, Foonz, (www.foonz.com) is the only service that lets anyone start an instant group call, or get a voice message to a group of people, any time, from any phone, for free! Foonz uses TXT and IM messages to instantly invite people to join a group call started by one of their friends, or invite them to call in and listen to a message left for them.
Foonz is a great way to communicating with a social network anywhere you are. It is ideal for teams, clubs, small businesses, or just getting a group of friends together on the phone to chat or plan an evening's activities.
- Spectrum Bridge
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Spectrum Bridge Inc., is an early stage company focused on providing new wireless communication system technologies that will make possible the real time identification, leasing and utilization of available radio spectrum.
The company's unique, patented technology will create a new paradigm for the efficient use of wireless spectrum for enterprise, consumer, public safety, and defense uses. Spectrum Bridge will make spectrum a retail commodity by creating a real time market for spectrum owners and users. Spectrum Bridge will enable spectrum owners to monetize available spectrum via an automated exchange in a structured and trusted environment. This will enable our products and technologies to dramatically increase the overall utilization of available wireless spectrum.
- Cyan Optics
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Ever increasing demand for high-bandwidth real-time services from consumers and business, places continuous pressure on public networks. Communication Service Providers recognize that their networks need to change to meet their customers' expectations. Cyan builds advanced technology systems to meet the expectations placed on these networks.
- Building B
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Building B is building an entertainment platform and service that incorporates the unique strengths of wireless broadcast technology and the internet to deliver a personalized, broadband video experience. The service consists of a turn-key home video entertainment solution that delivers a comprehensive content offering, including traditional TV programming, movies, and internet video, along with advanced television capabilities such as HDTV, on-demand viewing, personalization and advanced navigation -- all delivered to the living room television without the need for a PC.