Sitara Names Steven R. Cook Vice President, Technology.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000 Sitara Networks, Inc., a leading provider of solutions that intelligently integrate applications and networks for enterprises, ASPs and service providers, today announced that Steven R. Cook has joined the company as Vice President, Technology. Cook comes to Sitara with nearly 30 years of engineering management experience with leading information technology organizations throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . As Vice President, Technology, Cook will be responsible for guiding the architecture and technology underlying Sitara's next generation of products. He will also consult with the company's Business Development Group on technologies and partnerships related to new products. Cook joins Sitara from Motorola Laboratories where he was Director, Systems Architecture. In this position, he was in charge of research, development, and consulting for a broad range of applications including frame relay, voice over IP, fax over IP, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. control, cable modems, cellular infrastructure, software process, and software tools. Prior to joining Motorola Laboratories, Cook was with a variety of data communications and telecommunications companies including Codex Corporation, Netrix, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Telenet, Digital Switch Corporation (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. ), and COMSAT Comsat: see Communications Satellite Corporation; communications satellite. (COMSAT General Corporation, Bethesda, MD) Formerly Communications Satellite Corporation, COMSAT was a private company that was created by the U.S. . He led product development efforts for technologies including TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). , digital class 5 central office, digital specialized common carrier switch, digital voice/data PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). , X.25 concentrator, hybrid circuit/packet switch, cell relay, and frame relay. A resident of Franklin, MA, Cook earned an MS in Computer Science and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. . About Sitara Networks Sitara Networks designs, develops, and markets a comprehensive, integrated suite of high performance quality of service networking products for enterprises and communications service providers. Sitara Networks' products are designed to address the inherent limitations of Internet Protocol, or IP, in order to optimize overall network performance, ensure the availability of mission critical applications, and ultimately allow service providers to deliver additional, revenue-generating services, on demand, with the level of services their customers require. Sitara Networks is also a leader in the enterprise QoS market by enabling e-business and protecting mission critical applications. Sitara Networks is headquartered in Waltham, MA and operates subsidiaries in Canada, South America, South Africa, Europe, and Asia. More information about the company can be found on the Web at www.sitaranetworks.com. Sitara Networks, Sitara, QoSWorks, QoSArray, and QoSDirector are trademarks of Sitara Networks, Inc. |
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