Cabletron Names Romulus Pereira Chief Operating Officer; Pereira to Continue Managing Cabletron's Service Provider Business.ROCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1999-- Cabletron Systems (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CS) today announced that Romulus Pereira has been appointed chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. (COO), responsible for directing Cabletron's engineering, sales, services and marketing organizations. Most recently, Mr. Pereira served as general manager of Cabletron's service provider business. He will continue to supervise and grow the company's initiatives in that market space (see related Service Provider Initiative announcement, dated 6/7/99), in addition to his new responsibilities as COO. "Romulus will be applying over 10 years of 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. and WAN product development knowledge, as well as senior level management experience, to his new role at Cabletron," explained Piyush Patel, Cabletron's 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. , president and chairman. "I have the utmost confidence in his ability to direct the company's day-to-day operations. Rom's extensive knowledge of the service provider marketplace also positions him as the ideal person to continue leading Cabletron's initiatives in that area." Mr. Pereira founded YAGO Systems with Mr. Patel, where he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. Prior to co-founding YAGO, Mr. Pereira was at Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. . As part of Cisco's Fusion Architecture Group, he drew from his routing and switching backgrounds to contribute to the architecture of high-speed switching devices and ATM networking. Mr. Pereira was also employed by Kalpana as a software architect for Cisco's Catalyst 3000 family line. He was instrumental in driving hardware interface specifications and designing hybrid switching engines that maximized performance and minimized cost. Prior to Kalpana, Mr. Pereira was at the Wollongong Group, where he designed high performance TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. routing stacks for various platforms and developed software-based LAN and WAN routing solutions. He was also involved in the early development of the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. protocol. Mr. Pereira holds an MS degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. University. About Cabletron Systems Cabletron Systems, a premier provider of enterprise-class networking solutions, delivers dependable network access and communications to millions of people worldwide. With scaleable products designed for Fortune 1000 enterprise networks, service providers and small businesses, Cabletron is the e-business communications specialist for the information age. Cabletron's web site can be reached on the Internet at http://www.cabletron.com. |
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