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BTI Systems Appoints Steven Waszak as President
Ottawa, Canada — Wednesday, March 11, 2009 // BTI Systems, a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge solutions for the delivery of high-bandwidth, multi-protocol services, today announced the appointment of Steven Waszak as President.
Steven brings 20 years’ experience to BTI, most recently having held the positions of CFO and COO at Zetera Corporation, a network storage technology company. Working closely with the BTI Executive Team, and providing strong leadership to the company overall, Steven will be responsible to ensure that all parts of the organization are working together towards BTI’s overall objectives and for the health and success of the business. Steven’s focus in the near term will be to work closely with the Supply Chain team to ensure the full transition of manufacturing to Flextronics, Shanghai, in early April.
“I am very pleased to be joining the BTI team,” said Waszak. “With proven solutions for a market segment with strong demand, BTI is in an excellent position to aggressively tackle customer issues associated with video and wireless backhaul. I look forward to working with the executive team to grow the company’s business and position BTI as a leader in the industry.”
Prior to joining Zetera, Steven was CFO with Retix (one of the early public networking companies), CFO/COO with Sonoma Systems (which was acquired by Nortel in 2000), CFO/COO with Internet Photonics (a spin-out of Bell Labs, which sold to Ciena in 2004), and (post acquisition) Vice President of Ciena’s Sales Operations.
“Steven is an extremely experienced industry professional and brings significant experience in the areas of global supply-chain and strategic partnership management, business planning, positioning to maximize business growth, and expansion to maximize profitability.” said Gregory Koss, CEO, BTI. “Having Steven join us in such a crucial role will help us drive our leadership agenda at the Intelligent Service Edge.”
About BTI Systems
BTI Systems addresses increasing demand for Ethernet services, greater optical capacity, dynamic networking, and management simplicity in service provider and enterprise networks. Expanding the capacity of a single fiber up to 320Gbps, BTI’s Intelligent Service Edge solutions provide wavelength and packet-level delivery of high capacity services such as video, storage, wired data, wireless data and voice, and media to the network edge. Incorporating state-of-the-art technology BTI products are engineered for very low power consumption to reduce carbon footprint in central offices and data centers. The BTI portfolio consists of The BTI 7000 Packet Optical Edge, the BTI 700 Ethernet Access, and the Netstender microWDM™ Series. Key transport capabilities including CWDM/DWDM, optical multiplexing, amplification, dispersion compensation, software-provisionable multiprotocol client service interfaces, and packet-switching. End-to-end management of the BTI Network is provided by the proNX™ Management Suite.
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