"I'd like Orlando to be thought of as the Silicon Swamp!" responds the CEO of Applied Photonics, one of Orlando's newest high tech companies.

AST Advanced Systems Technology provides training solutions, education and training ... from a distance. "Founded in 1984, AST now employs more than 300 professional engineers, programmers, military analysts, and instructional systems designers and developers at over 30 locations across the U.S."
One of these prominent locations being the University of Central Florida's Research Park.

The American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society industry News Flash. The foremost finishing authority in the world weigh's anchor on one of the many corners of Research Park setting diagonally across the street from Invivo Research who provides Patient, including Neonatal, Monitoring systems.

Right down the street you'll find the Health Management Associates' University Behavior Center. Interesting place, we could see some people inside shooting pool and there is a mini-obstacle course out back. A man came out an yelled, "hey, you can't be walking around here" though I'm not sure since my legs were moving faster than his tongue.

Environmental Tectonics Corporation has been designing advanced emergency management simulators for over 15 years. Sporting a whopping monthly average of 62 site visitors during the last three years.

Close by we have the secretive Lacus Technology Corp. Internet appliance gateway solutions. All they will say is it's safe, cost effective, scalable, upgradable.

You may wonder what A Timeshare has to do with technology. Managing an ever-shifting database of 8,000 timeshare listings is no easy task and coordinating the sale and presentation of these vacation condominiums with locations around the nation and representation around the globe from the Timeshare Capital of the World is nothing to sneeze at either.

News- Align Optics is about to release their 4,000 plus inventory of lenses, prisms, windows, periscopes, telescopes, borescopes, mounts, and various optical and electro-optical assemblies for military and commercial use, to the public.

On the sports front Orlando based Score Card USA provides a host of services for amateur athletes and organizations. Liquid Golf was recently reported as a game site though it looks more like a Golf Portal and has made headlines recently due to their huge traffic base.

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