Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation is a supplier of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) principally targeted at systems manufacturers in the communications and storage industries. Within the communications industry, the Company's products address the enterprise, metro and core segments of the communications network, where they enable data to be transmitted at high-speeds and to be processed and switched under a variety of protocols. In the storage industry, its products enable storage devices to be networked efficiently. The customers include communications and storage original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Huawei, IBM, LSI Logic, Lucent, Nortel, Siemens, Sun Microsystems and Tellabs. In February 2004, the Company acquired Cicada Semiconductor Corporation, a supplier of DSP-based IC solutions to developers of high-speed communications systems used in local area networks (LANs).