CopperCom Names Bal Singh Vice President of Operations.Business Editors &High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 Industry Veteran to Quickly Ramp Up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale Manufacturing to Meet Growing Demand for CopperComplete DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , the Company's Voice Over DSL Solution CopperCom(TM), a Silicon Valley company that is Giving Voice to DSL(TM), today announced the appointment of Bal Singh as vice president of operations. Singh, who has extensive experience in operations, advanced manufacturing and quality assurance, has responsibility for CopperCom's manufacturing and facilities operations. In his new position, Singh reports to Cynthia Ringo, 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. and president, and is currently building the operations organization to meet the growing demand for CopperComplete DSL, the company's family of Voice over DSL products. &uot;Bal's impressive background in manufacturing operations and quality assurance are a perfect complement to our robust, carrier-class product delivery,&uot; said Ringo. &uot;We are delighted that Bal is at the helm of CopperCom's growing manufacturing efforts and can assist us in keeping pace with the increasing demand for our Voice over DSL equipment.&uot; CopperCom's CopperComplete DSL technology and products deliver up to 16 voice lines plus high-speed data, simultaneously, over a single copper pair in the local loop. CopperComplete DSL enables service providers, including ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) and CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers), to profitably meet the growing demands of small businesses, companies with fewer than 100 employees, and upscale residences. &uot;Because reliability of Voice over DSL equipment is paramount for broad customer acceptance of these new products, their production requires sophisticated manufacturing and quality assurance processes,&uot; said Singh. &uot;I'm delighted to be able to use my background in these areas to spearhead CopperCom's operations, plus it's great to be joining such an impressive and dynamic team of people.&uot; Singh brings over 25 years of extensive management experience in operations, advanced manufacturing and quality assurance to CopperCom. Prior to joining CopperCom, Singh served as vice president of operations for Mylex Corp., where he dramatically increased on-time delivery and made great reductions in overall inventory. He led the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 effort which resulted in the certification of the company's two facilities in a 7-month period and was a part of the due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. team that resulted in the company being acquired by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Before Mylex, Singh served as vice president of operations for Buslogic Corp. During his tenure there, he coordinated the company's three new products into manufacturing, reorganized the materials group to improve material purchases, improved gross margins by 15%, and implemented ISO 9002 team processes and procedures. Prior to Buslogic, Singh held executive positions with AT&, Comptronix Corp., Zyvex, Telco Systems and TTX TTX Tetrodotoxin (poison from the Puffer Fish) TTX Teletex TTX Table Top Exercise TTX True Type Xml TTX Teletext Corp. His management responsibilities included manufacturing, operations, production testing, test engineering, materials and quality. Singh holds a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Coventry Technical College in England. About CopperCom CopperCom is a privately held Silicon Valley company that is Giving Voice to DSL. The company was founded to address a worldwide market that is at the crossroads of voice and data convergence, and is paving the way for the next generation of high-bandwidth applications. CopperCom is leading the market in delivering carrier-class Voice over DSL equipment, both voice gateways and integrated access devices, to incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers. To accelerate market development, the company has taken a leadership role in both market education and standards efforts for Voice over DSL. CopperCom has built a strong management team with expertise across both the data and voice networking industries, international depth in European, Asian and North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. markets, and management experience in start-ups as well as large multinationals. The company has attracted engineering talent from AT&, Ericsson, Nortel, Intel, Fujitsu, Ipsilon, Fore, Advanced Micro Devices, Siemens, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , AFCI AFCI Association of Film Commissioners International AFCI Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter AFCI Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc AFCI Acupuncture Foundation of Canada Institute (Institut de la Fondation d'Acupuncture du Canada) , DSC (1) (Digital Signal Controller) A microcontroller and DSP combined on the same chip. It adds the interrupt-driven capabilities normally associated with a microcontroller to a DSP, which typically functions as a continuous process. See microcontroller and DSP. , Network Equipment Technologies, Juniper and Madge Networks. CopperCom can be contacted via telephone at 408/567-9277, fax at 408/567-9558, and the Internet at www.coppercom.com. Note to Editors: CopperCom, CopperComplete DSL, Giving Voice to DSL, The Many Voices of DSL, and True Telephony are trademarks of CopperCom, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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