Premises Networks: People and Places, 4-5-99

A roundup of personnel changes, company relocations, and other items of interest in the premises networks industry.

Nornale Peralta has joined the staff of Americom Networks International Inc. (New York) as comptroller and VP of finance and operations...

Ottawa-based start-up company Solidum Systems Corp. has named Peter Rose, VP finance and CFO; Charlie Jenkins, VP sales and marketing; and Yoram Lapid, VP engineering. Solidum is developing wire-speed packet processing for high-speed networks—technology the company sees as a key component to the deployment of IP telephony, virtual private networks, and multigigabit networking...

NetReality Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has appointed Larry Loper as VP of marketing. Loper comes to NetReality from 3Com, also of Santa Clara, CA...

Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. (Petaluma CA) has appointed John Schofield as president and CEO. Schofield will take over from Don Green, chairman of the board and a founder of AFC. Formerly senior VP of ADC Telecommunications Inc.(Minnetonka MN), Schofield will assume this new position on a full time basis on April 12, 1999...

Jim Guiney has joined telecommunication software developer TCSI Corp. as its new VP of human resources...

Protek (Berkshire, UK), a provider of network management tools, has appointed John Cuming group sales and marketing director. John joins Protek from Newbridge Networks Corp. (Herndon VA), where he held the position of VP carriers and managing director of Siemens Newbridge Networks, a joint venture between German telecommunications company Siemens AG and Newbridge...

MMC Networks (Sunnyvale CA) has appointed Douglas Spreng president and CEO.

Spreng is a former executive VP at 3Com Corp. of Santa Clara, CA...

ION Networks Inc. has been formed as a result of the reincorporation into the State of Delaware of MicroFrame Inc. The company also has completed the merger between ION Networks and privately held SolCom Systems Ltd. (Livingston, Scotland). Based in Edison, NJ, ION Networks develops and manufactures software and hardware products for secured Internet/intranet and remote network management systems for voice, video, and data communications.