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John Goddard Named to Cedar Point Board of Directors.


DERRY, N.H. -- 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 that former Viacom Cable 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.  John Goddard For the motivational speaker refer to John Goddard (adventurer)

John Douglas Claude Goddard (April 21, 1919-August 26, 1987) was a cricketer and one-time captain of the West Indies Test side.

Goddard was born in Fontabelle, St Michael, Barbados.
 has been named to the company's Board of Directors.

Goddard, one of the industry's most respected and most recognized leaders, spent 25 years with Viacom and was president and CEO of the MSO (1) (Multiple System Operator) Typically refers to a cable TV organization that owns more than one cable system, but it may refer to an operator of only one system.  from 1980-96. Active in recent years in industry associations, as a director with cable companies and in non-profit causes, he was elected to the Cable Hall of Fame earlier this year.

"One of John Goddard's most notable strengths in cable has been his passion for the industry," said Andy Paff, president and CEO of Cedar Point Communications. "For nearly four decades, he has worked to improve the industry's competitive position across a wide range of disciplines, including government relations, technology and business modeling. His expertise will be invaluable as we continue the deployment of voice and multimedia solutions for cable system operators."

"Telephony will be one of the single most important new products this decade for cable," said Goddard "Cedar Point's VoIP technology offers cable operators an integrated scaleable technological solution to offer voice services -- the last link in the 'triple play.' The simplicity and financial attractiveness of the SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System will prove to be a winner for the cable industry."

Recipient of the National Cable Telecommunications Association's Vanguard Award for leadership in 1989, Goddard also earned the Cable Operator of the Year Award in 1993 and was honored for his contributions by the Walter Kaitz Foundation at its annual dinner in 1994. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs(R)) and Bend Cable Communications, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
.

Goddard is a past chairman of the NCTA NCTA National Cable & Telecommunications Association (fka National Cable Television Association)
NCTA National Cable Television Association (now the National Cable & Telecommunications Association) 
, past chairman and former Trustee of the Kaitz Foundation, and past president of the California Cable Television Association. From 1989-2003, he served as a director of the Deafness Research Foundation, an organization he chaired from 2001-03.

SAFARI C(Cubed) is the only totally integrated carrier class VoIP 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 A network device that converts control signals from one format to another. For example, a SIGTRAN signaling gateway converts SS7 signals of the PSTN to SIGTRAN for transport over IP. Contrast with media gateway. See SIGTRAN. , 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' totally integrated voice and multimedia switches provide cable system operators with cost-efficient, less complex voice-over-IP alternatives to distributed soft-switching cable telephony See cable telephone.  options. Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System is a PacketCable(TM)-qualified, Carrier Class Cable (C "Cubed") solution that supports legacy circuit and PacketCable(TM) voice services, as well as video telephony and non-traditional SIP-based devices. 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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