SVC Partners - Investments - Components, etc.

Components, Semiconductors, Materials

	Azanda Network Devices (Acquired by Cortina Systems Inc) designs silicon solutions for traffic processing in metro, core access, and enterprise networks. Azanda is poised to "evolutionize" the datapath architecture of high-speed optical line cards by using a high-performance, "open architecture" which helps OEMs leverage their existing investments in systems and accelerate their product time-to-market. Azanda's technology delivers multi-service traffic management at wire speeds of OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) with an architecture that is inherently scalable to OC-192 (10 Gbps) and beyond. www.azanda.com

	Lara Networks (Acquired by Cypress Semiconductor) is a broad-based supplier of network solutions for the Internet infrastructure market. Lara designs, develops and markets silicon solutions using its patent-pending Associative Processing Technology™(APT) to help fuel the converging communications industry. Lara's products are designed to optimize mission-critical applications such as business and financial transactions, policy enforcement, VPNs, QoS and CoS through hardware acceleration. www.laranetworks.com

	Renka Corporation is a leading designer and manufacturer of optical fiber glass, optical fiber cable and passive optical components made to only the highest international standards. Renka offers a full range of high quality products using the latest optical design and manufacturing technologies to leading providers of broadband solutions. Renka is developing ways to dramatically increase efficiency in transporting light over very long distances and enable passive optical networks in metro markets. www.renka.com