Premises Networks: People and Places, January 8, 1999
A roundup of personnel changes, company relocations, and other items of interest in the premises network industry.
Asante Technologies Inc. has appointed Wilson Wong as its chairman, president and CEO. Jeff Lin, Asante's previous chairman and CEO, will continue to serve on the Board of Directors of Asante. …
Israel-based telecom equipment vendor ECI Telecom Ltd. has opened ECI Telecom Japan, a fully owned subsidiary in Tokyo. Naofumi Ohba, a former director at KDD, has been nominated as general manager of the new office. …
ODS Networks has restructured its business units to focus on network and data security. Changes to management include the appointment of Tim Kinnear to executive VP and COO and the promotion of John Howland to VP of North American sales and marketing. …
Shomiti Systems has named Michele Fritz as VP of marketing. Shomiti products are used for analysis, monitoring, and management of local-area networks. …
OpenROUTE Networks Inc., an Internet access equipment vendor, has named Bruce G. MacAloney to the position of VP of sales. …
Secant Network Technologies Inc. has changed its corporate name to Celotek Corp. The company is a manufacturer of commercially available asynchronous transfer mode encryption and security systems. …
Vignette Corp. has named Bill Daniel as VP of business development replacing Brad Husick, who has become VP of global network development. Daniel will focus on establishing strategic partnerships within the enterprise network industry. …
NetScout Systems Inc. has promoted Ashwani Singhal to VP of engineering. NetScout develops business-oriented flow management applications for enterprise networks. …
Alberto Guglielmi has joined Genroco Inc. as manager of European operations and will open and manage the company's headquarters there. Genroco is a supplier of high performance storage, digital video, and network interfaces. Guglielmi also will act as liaison for a Genroco/Cern joint project to develop network-attached storage systems using Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. …
Okane International Enterprises Inc. has exercised its option to acquire 51% of the capital of Entrata Communications Corp. Entrata designs and manufactures a family of networking products that integrate voice, video, and data for business users. The deal includes a loan of $2 million to facilitate initial production of Entrata's multiservice platform.