Cedar Point Promotes Rafael Fonseca to Vice President, Product Evolution & System Engineering.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DERRY, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004 Cedar Point Cedar Point is a 364 acre (1.5 km²) amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, U.S. on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It is one of the world's largest amusement parks (by ride count) with 69 rides and currently holds the world record for most roller coasters with 17, one Communications, the leader in integrated packet-based voice and multimedia switching technologies for the cable telecommunications industry, announced today the promotion of Rafael Fonseca to Vice President, Product Evolution and System Engineering. Fonseca, who had been senior director of product evolution for Cedar Point, will be responsible for identifying market needs and for working with the cable industry to ensure that Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed)(TM) Media Switching System fully supports the current and future needs of customers deploying voice, multimedia and other advanced services. "The accelerating pace of telephony rollouts and the imminent arrival of multimedia services requires an increased focus on product evolution and management and account support from the technical and application perspective," said Andy Paff, 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. of Cedar Point Communications. "As an original member of the Cedar Point team and a networking expert, Rafael Fonseca is uniquely positioned to manage the process of aligning the development of SAFARI C(Cubed) with the needs of cable operators." During more than 20 years of system and architecture design for Bell Laboratories in the area of Optical/Data Networking, Fonseca was involved with network synchronization, network fault detection and isolation, hardware design, and optical and data networking. Prior to joining Cedar Point, he was strategic applications manager for emerging markets for Lucent Technologies. An acknowledged expert on telephony security, Fonseca has spoken on the topic at SCTE SCTE Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers SCTE Society of Cable Television Engineers SCTE Serial Clock Transmit External Cable-Tec Expo, the Western Show and other industry conferences. He holds a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico Founded in 1903, the University of Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico in Spanish, UPR) is the oldest and largest university system in Puerto Rico. Though Puerto Rico is not a U.S. and an MSEE MSEE Master of Science in Electrical Engineering MSEE Mean Square Estimation Error MSEE Major Source Enforcement Effort MSEE Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (Purdue University building) from Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. . SAFARI C(Cubed) is the only totally integrated carrier class switch that incorporates -- at no additional cost -- all of the components that make up the PacketCable(TM) voice switching infrastructure, eliminating the need for operators to purchase, maintain, upgrade and regression test separate Call Management Servers, Media Gateways, Record Keeping Servers, Announcement Servers, Signaling Gateways, Ethernet Switches and CALEA CALEA Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 CALEA Communication Assistance to Low Enforcement Act servers. Designed to accommodate not only current voice switching needs but also the anticipated migration to video telephony See videophone. and multimedia services, the PacketCable(TM)-qualified SAFARI C(Cubed) provides superior performance and reliability, significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and operations costs for cable operators offering telephony services while increasing network integrity, security and privacy. About Cedar Point Communications Cedar Point Communications has created and commercialized SAFARI C(Cubed)(TM) Media Switching System, an entirely new category of voice switching equipment tailored exclusively to the broadband cable operator's telephony and broadband media needs. Based on CableLabs(R) PacketCable(TM) specifications, SAFARI C(Cubed)'s totally integrated Carrier Class Cable (C "Cubed") telephony solution is a cost-efficient, less complex alternative to current circuit switched and distributed soft-switching cable telephony See cable telephone. options, and provides an elegant migration path from legacy circuit voice deployments. Cedar Point is backed by a high-level group of investors that includes JP Morgan Partners, STAR Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital and Ascent Venture Partners. The company is based in Derry, NH. For more information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com. CableLabs(R) and PacketCable(TM) are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. |
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