leader in digital subscriber line (DSL), service level management (SLM), and Broadband Voice and Media Gateway solutions, Paradyne markets its award-winning GranDSLAM and BitStorm DSL systems, ReachDSL and EtherLoop products, Jetstream Media Gateway systems and iMarc Service Level Management systems to service providers and business customers worldwide.

Silicon21 has started a Direct Business Relationship with Paradyne as an Authorized Distributor signed in 1998 and updated every year. Later Paradyne has extended Silicon21’s distribution agreement to cover the Middle East region.

On September 1, 2005, Zhone Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZHNE) completed the acquisition of Paradyne Networks, Inc. The combined company, operating under the name Zhone Technologies, provides network operators worldwide with marked-leading solutions for delivering packet-based voice, data and video services

Silicon21/Paradyne distribution agreement is still valid with Zhone Technologies covering the same territory.