Cable Industry Veteran David Fellows Joins the Celox Networks Board.Business/Technology Editors HUDSON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2000 Celox Networks, a new company building a highly differentiated carrier-class Services Delivery Switch to enable new IP-based network services, today announced that cable industry veteran David Fellows has joined the company's Board of Directors. Well-recognized for his role in the growth of the cable industry, David has been named Telephony Magazine's Fiber Optic Visionary, CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) An earlier videodisc technology from RCA that was released in 1981 and abandoned five years later. Like phonograph records, the analog disc contained grooves that a stylus rode over. Magazine's Man of the Year for 1996, and while he was at Continental Cablevision, Continental won the 1997 SCTE SCTE Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers SCTE Society of Cable Television Engineers SCTE Serial Clock Transmit External Chairman's award, 1996 SCTE Service in Technology award, as well as Cablevision Magazine's Technology Innovator and Operator of the Year awards. According to Kent Mathy, Celox Networks' Chairman, President, and 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. , "David is a pioneer in the growth of the networking industry as we know it today. Few have made the type of contribution that David has, particularly in the cable industry. We are privileged to have someone with his vision and experience guiding us as a member of the Board." David Fellows is currently a Principal with Pilot House Ventures, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a venture capital firm, which specializes in early stage broadband-enabling companies. During 1998, he acted as the interim Chief Technical Officer for the high-speed data joint venture between MediaOne Express and Time Warner's RoadRunner service. Since 1992, he also has served as Chief Technology Officer of US West Media Group, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology for MediaOne, and before that, for Continental Cablevision. "I believe that the Celox solution has the ability to solve a number of 'scalability' challenges facing the cable industry," said Fellows. "Some of these challenges include open access, large-scale VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. and work-at-home services, transition to IPv6 addressing, and others." Prior to joining Continental, David worked for Scientific-Atlanta as the President of the Transmission Systems Business Division, which produced their amplifier, headend, fiber optic, uplink, and taps and passives equipment. He also served as a Member of the Technical Staff at GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Labs, Vice President of R&D for GTE Lenkurt, and Vice President of Technology for Siemens Transmission Systems. David is chair of the SCTE Digital Standards Subcommittee, and head of CableLabs' DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. certification board. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Anadigics, a GaAs chip manufacturer, BigBand, a privately held media router company, as well as on the Board of Advisors for a number of public and private companies. Dave graduated from Harvard College with an S.B. degree in Engineering and Applied Physics, and holds a Masters degree from Northeastern University, and completed the PMD (Polarization Mode Dispersion) The type of dispersion that occurs in singlemode fiber due to a lack of perfect symmetry in the fiber and from external pressures on the cable. Light travels over singlemode fiber in two polarization states. program at Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. . About Celox Networks Founded in 1999, Celox Networks is building the first carrier-class, carrier scale IP Services Delivery Platform to enable Network Service Providers (NSPs) to drive new service revenues from network-based IP-centric services. The company has offices in Hudson, MA, St. Louis, MO and Bangalore, India. For more information about Celox Networks, please call 978.562.4200 and ask for corporate communications or visit our website at www.celoxnetworks.com. |
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