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Amperion, Inc.

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Amperion is a medium voltage powerline networking equipment company.

Amperion develops networking hardware and software that enables the delivery of high-speed broadband data over the medium-voltage power line (MV-PLC) assets of the utilities. Amperion's products will enable customers to use the existing power line infrastructures to provide high-speed data transport, which will enable broadband service providers of any type to expand their offering and reach new markets in a competitive environment.

Amperion's equipment is sold to service providers and systems integrators, who are ultimately the ones who bring broadband to the residential or business consumer. Potential customers include unregulated telecom subsidiaries of power utilities (Exempt Telecommunications Companies) and other types of telecommunications service providers (ILECs,CLECs, wireless providers, etc.).

The company is located in Chelmsford [Massachusetts].

The company, founded in June 2001, is privately held. First round investors in Amperion, who have invested over $12 million,  include, American Electric Power, a leading energy company and one of America's largest distributors of electricity, Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and Redleaf Group, a leading technology operating company.

 

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