Rustic Canyon

Amber Networks was acquired in July 2001 by Nokia [NYSE: NOK], the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. Founded in 1998, Amber developed advanced carrier-class IP/Optical edge networking systems. Amber's carrier infrastructure products, called Aggregation Service Routers, delivered unmatched wire-speed processing performance, 99.999% service availability, and market-leading port and logical subscriber densities.

Auxora provides wavelength management and control solutions for the photonics industry through its proprietary NanoCODE™ technology. Its current products include tunable filters, DWDM filters (50 GHz and 100 GHz), and specialty thin film filters such as Gain Flattening Filters and high performance band splitters. Auxora is currently serving over 30 public and private customers in the US and abroad.

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella’s patented WavePath® products provide the best performing WSS on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs. Capella was founded in 2000. Privately held and located in San Jose, California, Capella has a seasoned management team with experience from leading telecom and technology companies. Additionally Capella has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with 23 patents issued and over 30 pending.

Confluent develops, manufactures and sells a family of advanced optical systems for the cable and telecom industry. The Company’s products include wavelength multiplexers/demultiplexers based on the Lightchip™ product line, which has been in development since 1997. The products offered, using free-space diffraction gratings, have been pioneers in high-performance passive components and subsystems for dense wavelength division multiplexing. Free-space diffraction gratings enable service providers to increase wavelength count in CATV, metropolitan, and long-haul optical networks and to derive the maximum ROI from existing network infrastructures. In February 2006, Confluent merged with Auxora, a Rustic Canyon portfolio company, that provides low cost wavelength management and control solutions for optical networks.

EM4 Photonics is a worldwide supplier of active optoelectronic manufacturing services. Customers include component suppliers to the cable, defense, industrial, medical devices and telecom markets. EM4's core capabilities include the design, development, full-scale production and reliability testing of integrated active optoelectronic devices and subassemblies. EM4 provides end-to-end design and manufacturing solutions that are designed for high volume production.

Founded in 2003 and based in Sunnyvale, California, InSync Software is a leading provider of Auto-ID and sensor based software solutions that provide real-time visibility and automation of physical, workflow processes associated with inventory and asset movement through the supply chain. Whereas traditional enterprise applications have been focused on addressing needs arising within the four walls of the enterprise, InSync's Edgeware™ solutions solve the problems of exchanging, managing, tracking and providing real-time visibility of globally distributed assets and business information.

Founded in 2004, Mobileplay is an innovative technology solution for managing advertising-supported content delivery to smart mobile devices, including PDAs, smartphones and smart email devices. In addition to offering a solution for promoting, delivering and selling a variety of mobile content and services, our solution provides complete tracking and reporting for web-based content, applications and advertising delivered to our customers.

NanoNexus designs, develops, manufactures and sells high precision, scalable electrical contactors. The company's initial focus is on meeting the needs of the semiconductor test market, and its products address the key performance, cost, and cycle time bottlenecks of the growing high-density contactor market that supports semiconductor requirements.

SiliconSystems designs, manufactures, and markets standard and application-specific solid-state storage solutions developed and optimized for the unique requirements of the Enterprise System OEM market. SiliconDrive™ technology meets the rigorous demands of such end-market applications as broadband data and voice networks, military systems, flight system avionics, medical equipment, industrial control systems, interactive kiosks, and point-of-sales equipment.

Visto is the leading provider of mobile access solutions for the enterprise and mobile professionals. Visto’s technology provides secure access to the most widely used corporate messaging applications over any network and on a broad array of devices, and supports both browser-based as well as offline-capable devices (e.g., wireless PDAs, smartphones, etc.). Leveraging a portfolio of eight granted patents in synchronization, access and security technologies, Visto’s platform is a proven, scalable solution that has supported more than 2.7 million users.

In the spring of 2004, VSK was acquired by Archcom Technology. Founded in December 2000, VSK Photonics’ mission is to create high performance, cost-effective solutions for the next generation of optical transport networks. The company's focus is to deliver high performance components and modules based on its proprietary Indium Phosphide semiconductor technology.