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No. 12 Santur

Fremont, CA

Year	2007
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	2000
Growth	5,994.8%
2003 Revenue	$662,620
2006 Revenue	$40.4 million
Employees	192

Ranked No. 1 in the Top Companies in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
Ranked No. 2 in the Top Companies in Telecommunications
Ranked No. 3 in the Top 100 Companies Intending to Go Public

What it does: Santur's tunable lasers and transmitters (prices: $1,000 and $1,500, respectively) allow companies to expand the bandwidth capacity of fiber-optic lines by increasing the spectrum of wavelengths a cable will recognize.

Why it's growing: The need for bandwidth is exploding thanks to video, and the way to provide it cheaply is with devices that permit added wavelength programmability.

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