D2 Technologies Opens Boston Design Center for Mobile Device Software Development.Industry Luminary Zigurd Mednieks to Head R&D Effort SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. -- D2 Technologies announces today that it has opened a Design Center in Maynard, MA, just outside of Boston. The Center will be focused on the development of software products for mobile communication devices. Zigurd Mednieks, chief software architect, who reports to Matt Randmaa, vice president of engineering, heads the Design Center. Mednieks is a widely respected technologist, and the author of books and book chapters on telephony and programming published by leading publishers. D2 is best known for its vPort software, which is deployed in residential products, and is designed for CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment products such as wired/wireless Voice-enabled Terminal Adapters, routers and gateways, as well VoIP phones and handsets. Technology Authority Zigurd Mednieks Heads the Design Center Zigurd Mednieks joins D2 from JumpTap, where he was chief architect for handset technologies. Previously, he was CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at mobile games maker Chasma, where he pioneered mobile multiplayer games. Prior to Chasma, at Erickson Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. , he helped create the J20 Gateway GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. Serving Node. Zigurd is an entrepreneur and a technology industry veteran. He has started, raised financing for and sold companies. He has 20 years of experience in visual and voice user interfaces, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. for telecom infrastructure, CPE telephony systems, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , broadband voice/data systems and network applications development. He studied electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. and computer science at MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . "D2 is making a strong push into the mobile communication products arena, to complement our existing leadership position with devices for the CPE market via such products as VoIP gateways and Voice over WiFi handsets," says Dr. David Wong, president of D2. "We are very fortunate to have an industry expert with the stature of Zigurd join us to head the Boston Design Center. We now have Design Centers in Boston and Taiwan that are closely integrated with our R&D staff in Santa Barbara, CA, which is known worldwide for its VoIP advances." The Boston Design Center is currently in a staffing mode. It is located at: 2 Clocktower Place, Suite 360 Maynard, MA 01754. About D2 Technologies D2 Technologies, Inc. is the world's leader in softDSP-based software solutions for the rapidly growing VoIP market. Its software spans both enterprise and consumer devices, such as gateways and WiFi handsets. Since the company's original founding in 1993, D2's VoIP solutions have been widely deployed in thousands of systems that process billions of minutes of phone calls every month. D2 licenses its software to systems manufacturers worldwide who develop a wide variety of communications products for consumers and businesses. The company's software runs on the platforms of several major semiconductor vendors. The company's headquarters is located at 104 W. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Additional information about D2 is available at www.d2tech.com. D2's Asia sales/support office is located at Room 6, 5F, No.120, Sect 2, Gongdaowu Road, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Tel: +886-3-5715339. |
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