Daniel L. Palmer assumes president and chief operating officer positions.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 1995--Digital Link Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DLNK DLNK Digital Link DLNK Destination Link ) today announced the appointment of Daniel L. Palmer as its president and 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. . Palmer has served vice president of engineering and as an officer of the company since he joined Digital Link in 1989, and recently his duties as an officer have been expanded to include additional management responsibilities. The company is currently seeking a replacement for Palmer as vice president of engineering. In his new position, Palmer will be responsible for closer coordination of marketing, engineering and operations functions. Vinita Gupta, the founder and chief executive officer of the company, stated: "I believe this change in the senior management team will enable the company to maintain its focus on growth and expand third party business relationships. These added responsibilities will best leverage Dan's capabilities to lead the company from product conceptualization con·cep·tu·al·ize v. con·cep·tu·al·ized, con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing, con·cep·tu·al·iz·es v.tr. To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way: and design to delivering cost effective solutions to our customers." Prior to joining Digital Link, Palmer was vice president of engineering and general manager with 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. Communications Corp. (DSC), a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment for sales primarily to telephone companies. Palmer also held various engineering, management and business development positions with Granger Associates, which was acquired by DSC in 1984. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Digital Link Corp. designs, manufactures, markets and supports a broad range of high-speed digital access products for wide area networks (WANs) worldwide. The company's products provide access to private WANs based on dedicated leased lines and public WANs based on centralized switching networks that use packet switching technologies such as Frame Relay, SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service) A high-speed, switched data communications service offered by the local telephone companies for interconnecting LANs in different locations. It was introduced in 1992 and became generally available nationwide by 1995. and ATM. CONTACT: Digital Link, Sunnyvale Dave Della-Maggiore, 408/745-4190 (PR) Donna Harris, 408/745-6200, ext. 250 (IR) |
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