Zhone Technologies, Inc. is a provider of telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

s networking equipment founded in 1999.
It is headquartered in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

. Zhone is ISO 9001:2008 certified in the manufacture and service of telecommunications equipment.

Corporate history

Zhone was founded in September 1999 by former executives of Ascend Communications

Ascend Communications

Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999....

 Jeanette Symons, Mory Ejabat and Robert Dahl.

Acquisitions

Zhone acquired more than a dozen companies, including:

• Paradyne Networks, September 2005, Internet access
  Internet access
  Many technologies and service plans for Internet access allow customers to connect to the Internet.Consumer use first became popular through dial-up connections in the 20th century....
  
  
• Sorrento Networks, July 2004, Metro optical access
• Gluon Networks, February 2004, Switching and signaling gateways
• Tellium, November 2003, Metro optical transport
  Optical Transport Network
  ITU-T defines an Optical Transport Network as a set of Optical Network Elements connected by optical fibre links, able to provide functionality of transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of optical channels carrying client signals...
  
  
• Eluminant, February 2003, Access and transmission products
• vpacket, July 2002, VoIP
• Nortel Networks Access Node, August 2001, Digital loop carrier
  Digital loop carrier
  A digital loop carrier is a system which uses digital transmission to extend the range of the local loop farther than would be possible using only twisted pair copper wires...
  
   (DLC)
• xybridge, February 2001, Softswitch
  Softswitch
  A softswitch is a central device in a telecommunications network which connects telephone calls from one phone line to another, typically via the internet, entirely by means of software running on a general-purpose computer system...
  
  
• Optaphone Systems, February 2000, Wireless
• Roundview February 2000, IP and derived voice
• Premisys, December 1999, Integrated access solutions
• CAG Technologies, November 1999, Manufacturing

Products

Zhone's SkyZHone Metro Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

 System is approved by the Rural Utilities Service

Rural Utilities Service

is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture , one of the federal executive departments of the United States government charged with providing public utilities to rural areas in the United States via public-private partnerships...

for use in rural areas.