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BTI Attracts Industry Talent to form Advisory Board
Advisory Board to support BTI Systems' leadership team for continued growth and success.
Ottawa, Canada — Monday, June 15, 2009 // BTI Systems, a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge systems today announced that it has created an Advisory Board. Chaired by Stephen Diamond, a 25 year veteran of the Telecommunications and Networking industry, the new Advisory Board will provide strategic counsel to the firm and help it continue to execute on its aggressive growth strategy.
Diamond was most recently a General Partner and Head of the Technology and Telecom investment practice for Sprout Group, a Private Equity affiliate of Credit Suisse, and earlier was Group Vice President and Worldwide Director of the Telecommunications and Networking practice for Dataquest/Gartner Group. Diamond is joined on the Board by industry veterans including Mike Dagenais, CEO of Continuous Computing; Marco Pagani, former President of Optical Ethernet Networks, Nortel; Helmut Berg, former President of the Communication Test and Measurement business of JDSU Uniphase; and Mel Keating, former President and CEO of Alliance Semiconductor Corporation.
The objective of the Advisory Board is to provide BTI's leadership team with actionable strategic counsel on emerging industry trends, global market and partnership opportunities, supply chain, competition, technology direction and alignment of the company's product strategy with market requirements.
"We are very pleased to have such an experienced and well respected team of executives on our Advisory Board and look forward to their insight and continued guidance," said Greg Koss, CEO BTI Systems. "Their collective experience, business acumen, and industry contacts and relations will be a tremendous asset to the company as we scale to meet the accelerated demand for packet optical networking globally."
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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