Israeli-based or Israeli-owned technology firms continue to be recognized for their ingenuity and successes.



Expand Networks, headquartered in both Tel Aviv and New Jersey, has been honored as one of New Jersey?s top twenty-five privately held companies. The ?New Jersey?s Finest? Award was given to Expand in recognition of its technological innovation, strong revenue growth, corporate expansion and contributions to the economy. The award is sponsored by Business News New Jersey and other local firms. Expand Networks, with offices throughout the US and Europe, is a pioneer in the development of Enterprise Caching Technology, which increases network speed, capacity and throughput by 100 to 400% or more.



Another Israeli firm, Kfar Saba-based Connect One Semiconductors, has received the prestigious Comet Award from Communication Systems Design magazine. Comet One was selected from a list of more than 70 companies as having the vision, focus, technology and risk-taking skills to help them become big players in the communications market. The award recipients are decided upon by editors from four leading technology publications (Communication Systems Design, EE Times, Embedded Systems Programming, and CommsDesign.com). Connect One is the creator of iChip, the first complete off-the-shelf internet connectivity solution that includes all the hardware and software necessary to run and update the internet protocols for sending and receiving email and Web pages, and for using TCP and UDP sockets.