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Applied Technology invests in Maker Communications; Expands support for interactive enabling technologies
By mobile | January 29, 2008
Located in Waltham, Maker is a provider of high performance ATM cell processing technology. Maker’s cell processing integrated circuits is used by developers of high performance network communications equipment. Level One Communications (a provider of physical layer communication chips), Greylock, Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, and Bessemer Venture Partners, joined Applied Technology in the financing. According to Fred Bamber, managing general partner of Applied Technology, “Maker’s systems original approach deals both with the every changing network standards and time-to-market concerns of equipment manufacturers.”
Maker was founded in 1994, by William (Bill) Giudice and Paul Bergantino both formerly of LSI Logic. The first chip developed by Maker, the MXT3010 features the company’s very high-speed, relatively low cost, programmable cell processor architecture. Key advantages of the technology stem from the availability of a programmable, common architecture for use in a wide variety of high performance communications system, from the local area network to the wide area network. The initial products are SAR (segmentation and reassembly) chips focused on 622 megabite per second (MBPs) speeds, making it the only vendor shipping full rate chips. Potential customers for the products include: Fore, Bay Networks, Cisco, Agile Networks, Cabletron, Chipcom, 3Com, IBM, Newbridge and Level One Communication.
Management Team
Bill Giudice, co-founder, is president and CEO. Giudice spent nine years at LSI Logic in sales, rising to the position of general manager of LSI’s Eastern region. Giudice holds a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Paul Bergantino, co-founder, chief architect, conceived and designed an earlier generation of programmable ATM chip, LSI Logic’s ATMizer. Previously, Bergantino, spent two years at Data General as a design engineer in CPU development before spending six years at LSI Logic as a product manager in ATM products. Bergantino holds a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
About Applied Technology
Applied Technology operates with a team of three managing partners DD Frederick Bamber, David Boucher, and Thomas Grant DD and two special general partners, Eugene Flath and Professor Nicholas Negroponte.
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