Premises Networks: People and Places, 6-12-00
Thomas Hughes is the new vice president of product development for <%=company%>. (Bothell, WA). Before joining Vixel, Hughes held the position of president and chief operation officer for V Band Corp. ,a developer of voice and data switching products. In addition Kelsey Britz was promoted to Vixel vice president of operations responsible for all operations in support of product manufacturing. Previously, Britz was Vixel's director of quality and director of operations...
McDataCorp. (Broomfield, CO), a manufacturer of computer network switches and related software, will seek to raise as much as $100 million through an initial public offering. McData, which is about 85% owned by storage vendor EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, MA), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell Class B common stock. EMC said it will distribute all of its McData Class A shares to EMC stockholders six to 12 months after the IPO. McData will use the IPO proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repayment of $1.9 million in debt to a subsidiary of EMC. Some of the money will be devoted to capital expenditures and working capital...
Artis Software, a Delaware corporation with headquarters located in San Jose, CA, announced last week at Supercomm 2000 in Atlanta that it is now the parent company of Artis of Turin, Italy. The incorporation is the latest in a series of moves to expand and strengthen Artis' presence in the United States, which is the company's largest market...
A new start-up that will design and manufacture fiber-optic components for the telecommunications market, Southampton Photonics (Los Gatos, CA), has attracted first-round funding of $55 million, one of the largest private investments in the industry to date. The company will create 200 jobs during the next 18 months in the UK and will also establish design, production, and sales facilities in California where it expects to employ an additional 250 staff by the end of 2002...
Networking equipment maker 3Com Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) appointed James Long to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Long retired from Nortel Networks (Brampton, ON) on December 31, 1999, where most recently he served as executive vice president of Nortel Networks and president of Enterprise Solutions in Richardson, TX...
Speedlane.com Inc. (Palo Alto, CA), a provider of Internet-enabling products and technologies, appointed Jon Rothenberg as president and CEO. Chris Mentzel, the company's former president and CEO will remain as chairman of the board and will assume the newly created position of executive vice president to focus on technology affairs and software development...
Craig Soderquist joins Com21 Inc. (Milpitas, CA) as vice president, reporting directly to president and CEO Peter Fenner. In a newly created position, Soderquist will be responsible for directing all Com21 worldwide business units managing multiple product lines, including cable head-end systems, cable modems, and wireless systems. Prior to joining Com21, Soderquist served as vice president/general manager of the San Jose, CA-based VLSI Technology Inc. Consumer Semiconductor division...
Telemetrix Inc. (Scottsbluff, NE), a developer of wireless telemetry systems and services, appointed Joseph Schon as the company's CEO. Schon previously served as vice president of the Alcoa Separations Technology Division of Alcoa Fujikura Ltd. (Duncan, SC)...
Wireless broadband manufacturer Speedcom Wireless International Corp. (Sarasota, FL) has incorporated and formed a new subsidiary in Brazil: Wave do Brazil. To date, Speedcom has established relationships with two master distributors in Brazil, providing access to a sales channel of more than 110 value added resellers (VAR). Speedcom manufactures a variety of broadband wireless products, wireless Ethernet bridges, and routers...
Edward Thurman has joined Accelerated Networks (Moorpark, CA) as chief technology officer. Prior to this move, Thurman was in charge of the Advanced Technology Development Group responsible for the design, planning, software and hardware development, and implementation of the Sprint (Reston, VA) Integrated On-demand Network, including all voice, data, and integrated services...
Edited by John Spofford, Managing Editor