Wintegra is a leading provider of access processing semiconductors enabling the delivery of new services for the evolving communications network infrastructure. Its access processors and networking software provide the essential intelligence and upgradeability for infrastructure equipment to support the emerging networks based on the convergence of voice, video, data and wireless services. Wintegra based solutions are available for a wide range of communication platforms used by many of the leading telecom and networking equipment manufacturers worldwide.
According to The Linley Group, Wintegra is now the #1 provider of access processors and has become so with a strong multi-core processor architecture and world-leading software development. Wintegra offered a new business model to equipment manufacturers that provided factory-tested production-quality software at no charge with its silicon. While other companies were off selling ‘network processors' and ‘software toolsets', Wintegra offered a ready-to-ship solution that was just as flexible. In addition Wintegra software teams continually upgrade and offer new protocols for the communications infrastructure, so equipment vendors have a living software roadmap they can leverage in their new products.
The company's founders and management team have a proven track record of developing market-leading processor solutions and long-term, winning customer relationships. The President and CEO of Wintegra is Kobi Ben-Zvi, former co-General Manager of the Networking and Communications Systems Division of Motorola. Robert O'Dell, who worked with Kobi in product planning and systems definition roles in the same division, is Executive Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development. Other managing principals come from similarly strong backgrounds in engineering development, management, communication software design, and telecommunication system integration.
Founded in January 2000, Wintegra is based in Austin, Texas, and Ra'anana, Israel, near Tel Aviv. Wintegra, Inc., is a U.S. corporation with a wholly owned subsidiary in Israel under the name Wintegra, Ltd. The company has approximately 160 employees, with marketing and applications engineering centered out of Austin; chip design, product engineering, and sales operations are centered out of Israel. In addition to various sales offices, Wintegra has had a regional office in Glasgow, Scotland, since July 2000. Wintegra's first silicon product was the WinPath access processor family introduced in 2001. The company has strategic relationships with a number of companies including Texas Instruments and PMC-Sierra Inc. Wintegra has established relationships with the vast majority of leading communications equipment vendors world-wide, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Tellabs and many others.