NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Qusion Technologies, a telecom component manufacturer driving monolithic integration of all optical components, announced a major expansion as it kicked of its drive to raise a second round of venture capital funding. Rueben Richards, CEO of EMCORE, joined Qusion's Board of Directors; Timothy Brophy PhD, former Director of Photonic Technology at Motorola, joined as VP Product Development; Nisa Khan, PhD and Niloy Dutta, PhD have both joined Qusion's technology advisory board. Qusion Technologies is a leading developer of monolithically integrated optical components on Indium Phosphide (InP). Using the most advanced manufacturing techniques and materials Qusion is creating integrated optical devices with tremendous precision that will reach unrivaled manufacturing yields, driving the development of the 40 Gb/s system and beyond. This announcement comes as Qusion inaugurates a second round of VC funding that will enable them to begin manufacturing monolithically integrated components. A first round of funding in early April raised over $9 million. Qusion Technologies Inc.