Investor Relations

By designing for FPGAs from the ground up, Omiino have developed unique IP, addressing real underserved needs and delivering an inimitable solution that enables both telecommunications providers and Omiino to meet both customer and shareholder expectations by delivering....

  • Up to 50% lower solution costs.
  • Up to 50% reduction in development times.
  • Unparalleled integration and field support tools.
  • Field reprogram ability.

The packet optical transport market was valued at $2.5Billion in 2007 and is projected to grow by 75% by 2010. With ever increasing demands being made on the communications industry, this trend is expected to continue. Omiino's product roadmap is well positioned to expand in line with market requirements, concentrating resource on the key areas of Ethernet and OTN, PDH and NG-SDH, from 2MBit to 40GBit.

Today's telecommunications networks interconnect the world in ways barely conceivable only five years ago. People interact daily using instant messaging, Bebo and Facebook; play and live alternate existences in multi-billion dollar virtual spaces and shop globally with single clicks. Businesses, large and small, are globally connected as never before, benefiting from low-cost VoIP and VPNs. This pace of change will continue unabated, services unimaginable today will become indispensible five years from now.

Once measured in decades, change for telecommunications network operators, now means rapidly evolving demand and the inevitable migration of networks from 'rigid and inflexible' to 'scalable and adaptive' and an unparalleled set of new challenges. How to maximize a %100Bn legacy investment while adapting briskly developing opportunities and reducing capital and operational costs is the key to survival for the Network Operators!

Nowhere in the network are these challenges more acutely felt than in the Optical Transport Network, the fibre web that interconnects the entire infrastructure is evolving in technology (from circuit to packet), in capacity (from megabits to gigabits) and in scale (with fibre deployment extending daily). Born from an intrinsic understanding of the network operator's pain points, Omiino understands that the key to delivering an economically viable future is to maximize the leverage of the legacy networks in tandem with cost reduction, accelerated time-to-market and ease of adaptability.

In an environment characterised by reduced time to market, shrewd budgeting, lower price points, increasing segmentation, and unpredictable future services, the old heart of the network, conventional Transport ASSPs simply need transplanting. Omiino offer the solution; a leaner, faster, programmable and much less expensive heart that the industry desires – the "virtual ASSP".

Northern Ireland's leading venture fund, Crescent Capital led a seed investment round of approximately $1.5Millon, in 2007.

Crescent Capital believes that a shakeout is occurring in the semiconductor market; so-called application-specific silicon requires vast up-front investment and verification costs.  For telecommunications network equipment vendors the return on investment is getting longer for such devices given the relatively low production volumes. Omiino has developed a means of offering much more flexible and attractive silicon solutions to equipment vendors by building their offerings on lower cost programmable FPGAs, offering the industry a powerful solution to what appear to be duelling objectives.