Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation is a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) that are utilized primarily by manufacturers of networking systems for carrier, enterprise and storage communications applications. The Company designs, develops and markets a portfolio of semiconductor products. Its end user customers include communications and enterprise original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, HP, Hitachi Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., IBM, NEC Corporation, Nortel Networks Corporation, Nokia Siemens Networks B.V., Tellabs, Inc. and ZTE Corporation. As of September 30, 2008, it operated four domestic design centers in the United States in California, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas, and four international design centers in Denmark, Germany, India, and Taiwan. On October 29, 2007, the Company sold a portion of its storage products business to Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.