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Cyclone Whips Up
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Business New Haven
9/4/2000
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Rapid growth in the telecommunications industry is helping to fuel the doubling of product shipments and the size of Cyclone Microsystems in just one year's time. Based in Science Park, Cyclone designs and manufactures high-performance computer boards for real-time systems.
More than 20 new employees are expected to be added by October, along with expansion and renovation of the privately held company's 12,000-square-foot space.
Cyclone Microsystems was founded in 1986 and has grown apace, today servicing an international base of customers. Its boards permit high-speed movement of large amounts of data traffic, to avoid bottlenecks that slow systems down. For instance, the boards are in new products launched by IBM, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Telcordia, Tektronix, Lucent, Raytheon and many innovative start-up companies, according to a company spokesperson.
But it's Cyclone's telecommunications customers who are driving today's expansion. “This is clearly the most exciting period in Cyclone's 14-year history,” says Peter Zackin, co-founder and vice president of sales. “There has certainly been an upswing in requests from telecommunications-equipment companies over the past 18 months.”
Cyclone says customer requirements will keep current products in production through 2003, and that demand continues to mount for newer and faster products. In particular, telecommunications companies need to process and quickly move voice, data and video traffic. Cyclone's computer boards do this by off-loading tasks from the system's host processor and executing tasks on specialized, intelligent I/0 boards.
Moving data quickly is especially crucial in Advanced Intelligent Networking (AIN), a market expected to hit $60 billion by the end of this year with services that allow faster, more flexible service. AIN switches need the ability to look up subscriber information and provide advanced services, such as call waiting, toll-free calling cards and call routing.
Cyclone has helped to deploy more than 500 AIN installations worldwide, according to the company, resulting in 60 percent of all calls routed in the U.S. going through Cyclone equipment.
Zackin says his company is recruiting skilled employees now from “all sectors of technology. The majority will be in software engineering, but we are also looking for hardware engineers, printed circuit-board designers, manufacturing and production technicians and marketing specialists.”
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