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Media, Communications & Mobility

Increasing bandwidth and connectivity, coupled with the improving capabilities of network infrastructure and remote devices has created opportunities for innovative solutions within converged services, mobile applications and media distribution & consumption.

Current areas of interest:
Converged Platforms and Services Digital Media
Mobile Applications Mesh networks
Current Investments:
image Cedar Point Communications Derry, NH www.cedarpointcom.com

Cedar Point offers a totally integrated voice and multimedia switch that provides IT departments and network operators with a cost-efficient, less complex Voice-over-IP (VoIP) alternative to distributed softswitching and legacy PBX telephony options.

image Whaleback Systems Portsmouth, NH www.whalebacksystems.com

Whaleback offers a business quality, software-based VoIP telephone solution for small and medium sized businesses. The system is a fully featured office telephone system that integrates and leverages popular desktop software to provide simplified system management and significant cost savings to the end user.

image Pyxis Mobile Waltham, MA www.pyxismobile.com

Pyxis Mobile’s industry-leading mobile enterprise application platform enables total business mobility. Pyxis Mobile drives value by delivering critical data into custom mobile applications to corporations and their customers, on any device.

Everyday Solutions Inc Everyday Solutions Concord, MA www.everydaysolutionsinc.com

Everyday Solutions provides real-time tracking, safety and auditing solutions to the student transportation sector.

image Bluesocket Burlington, MA www.bluesocket.com

Bluesocket designs and markets high performance solutions securely enabling the broad deployment, control and effective management of wireless local area networks (WLANs) for data and voice communications in enterprises worldwide.

Past Investments:
image Indus River (acquired by Enterasys) Acton, MA

Indus River Networks provided Virtual Private Networking (VPN) systems for end-to-end, Internet-based mobile connectivity. Indus River VPN solutions allowed mobile workers to connect to corporate networks through the Internet, thereby incurring only local phone calls and avoiding the requirement to purchase modem banks.

image Net2Net (acquired by Visual Networks) Hudson, MA

Net2Net sold high performance management and analysis systems to the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) market.

image RAScom (acquired by Excel Switching) Salem, NH

RAScom provided wide area network interfaces, communications software, and integration services that allowed enterprise networks and ISPs to implement high-performance, secure, flexible, and scalable remote access solutions.

image Primary Rate (acquired Xircom) Salem, NH

Primary Rate developed and sold public switched telephone network high speed communication access devices.

image Voicetek (acquired by Aspect Telecommunications) Marlboro, MA

Voicetek was a leading provider of interactive voice response & message processing systems.

image Watch Hill Partners (acquired by Mastercard Advisors) Providence, RI

Watch Hill Partners is an information technology-consulting firm that specialized on wireless customer relationship management (CRM) software integration projects.