Crescent Networks Appoints Former Director of Technology At British Telecom as Chair of Its Technical Advisory Board.Business/Technology Editors LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2000 Dr. Tom Rowbotham Selects the Industry's First Dense Virtual Routed Networking (DVRN DVRN Dense Virtual Routed Network (Crescent Networks) ) Platform to Apply 36 Years of Distinguished Networking Experience Crescent Networks, Inc. today announced that it has appointed Dr. Tom Rowbotham, former Director of Technology at British Telecom (BT), as chairman of its Technical Advisory Board (TAB). As chair, Dr. Rowbotham will be instrumental in Crescent Networks' continued market development of the first Dense Virtual Routed Networking (DVRN) solution for service providers looking to create valuable collaborative IP services for their retail and wholesale customers. DVRN is an innovative network-level solution that integrates three essential elements: dynamic virtual routing, optical-scale Application QoS (AQS AQS American Quilter's Society AQS Air Quality Standard AQS Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in der Medizin (Koeln, Germany) AQS Air Quality Subsystem AQS Advanced Quality System AQS AetherQuest Solutions ), and collaborative service management. DVRN liberates the powerful routing functionality that has created today's Internet and private IP networks from the performance and operational constraints of monolithic physical routers. In the same way that Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (spelling) wave division multiplexing - A common misnomer for wavelength division multiplexing. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) and intelligent optical switching transformed optical networking, Crescent Networks' DVRN is transforming IP networks and service delivery with breakthroughs in scale, economies, and new revenue opportunities. "As director of technology at British Telecom, I saw numerous technologies that addressed both a specific industry problem and necessary market," said Dr. Tom Rowbotham. "Crescent Networks' Dense Virtual Routed Networking caught my attention from the start as an innovative solution to satisfy a long-standing difficulty for service providers and one that will help them capture a large, growing market. I am pleased to be so closely involved with Crescent Networks." Dr. Rowbotham is a senior executive with more than 36 years experience in the networking and telecommunications fields. Previously, he served as Director of Technology at British Telecom (BT). Prior to that he was the Director of BT's Research and Development Laboratories worldwide and was a founding senior vice president of Concert, the BT joint venture originally formed with MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , where he helped develop the first set of products for what is now a $10 billion company. "Crescent Networks is honored at the addition of Dr. Rowbotham as chair of our highly valuable Technical Advisory Board," said Gerald Wesel, 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. at Crescent Networks. "With 36 years of acclaimed industry experience and development of intelligent networks, Tom is highly complementary to our other valued TAB members and will be an invaluable resource in delivering our Dense Virtual Routed Networking solutions to market." Additionally, Dr. Rowbotham is on the Board of the Federation of Engineering Industries in the UK, which represents all the Engineering companies in the UK in national policy matters. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering is a British learned society concerned with engineering. History Founded in 1976, the Academy was initially known as the Fellowship of Engineering. (the equivalent to the National Academy of Science in USA) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is a Board member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc, USA, and is a member of the Board of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Foundation Inc. He is a member of the IEE IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers IEE Independent Educational Evaluation IEE Initial Environmental Examination IEE Initial Environmental Evaluation IEE Idiopathic Eosinophilic Esophagitis IEE Institute of Entrepreneurial Excellence IEE Interim Expendable Emitter (UK) Council. About Crescent Networks Crescent Networks, Inc. - a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Lowell, MA - provides service providers with breakthrough Dense Virtual Routed Networking (DVRN) for Collaborative IP Services. Crescent Networks DVRN solution dramatically accelerates IP service delivery, liberating service providers from today's IP network design limitations and economical constraints. In the same way that Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and intelligent optical switching transformed optical networking, Crescent Networks' DVRN will transform IP networks and service delivery with breakthrough scale, economies, and new revenue opportunities. Crescent Networks is funded by industry-leading investors led by top-tier venture firms - Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. , JAFCO Ventures, St.Paul Venture Capital and Venrock Associates. Its top-notch talent has a proven track record for successful networking solutions at leading companies including Cascade, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Digital, Cabletron, Nortel Networks and Newbridge. For more information visit http://www.crescentnetworks.com. |
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