Broadband Access Systems, Inc. Named 'Investors' Choice' at Technologic Partners Network Outlook Conference.Business/Technology Editors WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 ...Massachusetts startup earns fourth industry award in less than a year... Broadband Access Systems, Inc., the industry's first company exclusively focused on providing cable access solutions for the deployment of value-added data and voice services, today announced that it was named "Investors' Choice" at the recent Network Outlook Conference held in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . Technologic Partners hosted the eighth annual, invitation-only conference for networking equipment companies that assembled the top executives from 90 privately held companies. The top-level executives presented their business plans to an audience that was composed of venture capitalists, money managers, investment bankers, and other industry executives. Based on its visionary technical ideas and impressive business goals, Broadband Access Systems was recognized as one of only ten companies to be awarded with the "Investors' Choice" moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. . "We are very honored to be recognized in this fashion among the leaders in the networking industry," said Dave Paolino, chief executive officer of Broadband Access Systems. "Technologic Partners is a highly-respected agency in this industry and to earn recognition of this magnitude is extremely gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. ." About Broadband Access Systems, Inc. Founded in February 1998, Broadband Access Systems, Inc. is a leading developer of a new generation of award-winning highly integrated carrier-class broadband access systems that allow service providers to deliver high quality data, voice, and video services to large numbers of users. Headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, the company's management team brings years of experience in networking and telecommunications from companies such as Nortel Networks (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NT), Lucent (NYSE:LU), AT&T (NYSE:T), FORE Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, 3Com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), and Tellabs (NASDAQ:TLAB). Broadband Access Systems is funded by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, The Still River Fund, Norwest Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management, Soros Private Equity Partners and Vulcan Ventures. Additional company information can be found at www.basystems.com. About Technologic Partners Founded in 1984, Technologic Partners provides information to technology investors and executives through newsletters, research studies, and industry conferences. The company is based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Technologic Partners has been following venture investing venture investing The acquiring of a stake in a start-up company by a brokerage firm or analyst by obtaining discounted, pre-IPO shares. Critics claim venture investing causes analysts to have a vested interest in seeing a stock appreciate in value and so for 15 years and maintains a proprietary database of thousands of venture-backed companies. Technologic has been producing investment-oriented technology conferences since 1985. The founder, Richard A. Shaffer, was formerly the science and technology editor of The Wall Street Journal and a long-time columnist at Forbes magazine. He now writes the "Watch This Space" column for Fortune magazine and is editor in chief of Fortune's biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an technology guides. He is also editorial director of The Wall Street Journal Technology and Health Care Summits. More information about Technologic Partners can be found at the company's Web site at www.technologicpartners.com. |
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