Potential VoIP Investments: Part V

This is a continuation of our look at potential companies for a VoIP shortlist. See the initial page here.


LSI Logic

LSI Logic is a publicly traded company (NYSE: LSI) headquartered in Milpitas, California. LSI was incorporated in 1980. They are a big player in the semiconductor industry. Z.Voice is their line of VoIP solutions. See their press release about these products here. See also Rich Tehrani'’s interview with their VoIP product manager here.

Mediatrix Telecom

Mediatrix develops VoIP access devices, gateways, routers and related software. They were founded in 1997 and are based in Sherbrooke, Canada. They have about 100 employees. Mediatrix is wholly owned by Media5 Corporation, a high tech holding company.

Metreos

Metreos is a private, venture-capital backed company. They were founded in 2001 and are based in Austin, Texas. They received $3.8 million in venture financing late last year. They deliver a Communications Application Environment for leveraging voice and data networks.

NetFabric

NetFabric was founded in 2002 and has just received $11 million in venture capital financing to expand their VoIP services. They are preparing to launch a service package bundled with VoIP equipment and aimed at companies with less than eighty employees.

Netgear

Netgear was incorporated in 1996 as a subsidiary of Bay Networks. It is now a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: NTGR.) They are based in Santa Clara, California and they compete in the wireless networking products segment. Netgear has teamed up with Vonage, as announced last month, to provide a voice-enabled wireless router based on the 802.11g Wi-Fi standard. The router is to be available in October.