Bandspeed Hires Industry Veteran as Vice-President of Systems Engineering; Nestor Fesas Will Lead Systems Engineering for Broadband Technology Company.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2001 Bandspeed Inc., a broadband technology broadband technology Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals. company, has hired Nestor Fesas to serve as its vice-president of systems engineering. Fesas will be responsible for the company's systems engineering team developing next generation transceiver products for enhancing broadband deployment and performance. "Fesas will be instrumental in leveraging our proprietary signal processing See DSP. technology into systems for reliably connecting the broadband edge," said Michael Luther, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bandspeed. "He has extensive experience within the industry at Intel, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. and other pioneering companies. His proven ability to develop reference designs, deliver software products and support OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers will be invaluable as we launch new products." "Bandspeed is a company with great technology ready to be incorporated in products and brought to market. We've developed innovative signal processing systems that solve critical performance and deployment problems for broadband communications. By delivering products featuring interference mitigation and enhanced signal recovery technologies, we'll set new standards for broadband performance," said Fesas. Fesas has more than 17 years of technical expertise and leadership in local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) software development, including I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output subsystem design in networking protocols, device drivers, operating systems issues, system interfaces and chip direct memory access (DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. ) architectures. Before joining Bandspeed, Fesas was the director of engineering for Intel's LAN Access Division in Austin, Texas, responsible for all facets of product development for Ethernet storage area networks (SANs) and 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) LANs. He drove the acceptance of Ethernet-based SANs within Intel as a necessary evolution to the mainline Ethernet business. Fesas also defined and created Ethernet SAN and 10Gbe products, as well as constructed project roadmaps while at Intel. Prior to that, Fesas was the director of engineering at Jato Technologies, a startup company eventually acquired by Intel. While at Jato, he was responsible for developing and bringing their Gigabit Ethernet controller to market. About Bandspeed Inc. Bandspeed Inc., a broadband technology company, delivers transceiver solutions for reliably connecting the broadband edge. Its proprietary signal processing systems for interference mitigation and signal recovery facilitate broadband deployment and performance. Bandspeed provides an innovative portfolio of transceiver chipsets and software for wired and wireless broadband communications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Bandspeed also has a research and development facility in Melbourne, Australia. For more information, please visit www.bandspeed.com. |
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