Tropos Networks Adds Former Alcatel Executive John Shelnutt as VP of Worldwide Sales.Carrier Sales Veteran Joins World-Class Executive Team to Accelerate Company's Building Momentum in the Carrier Segment Worldwide SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Tropos Networks, the market leader for metro-scale wireless mesh network (1) A network that relies on all nodes to propagate signals. Although the wireless signal may start at some base station (access point) attached to a wired network, a wireless mesh network extends the transmission distance by relaying the signal from one computer to another. systems, today announced the addition of John Shelnutt to its executive management team. Mr. Shelnutt will serve as Tropos Networks' Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In his new role, Mr. Shelnutt will be responsible for sales of Tropos MetroMesh products to carriers, ISPs and municipalities around the world. Mr. Shelnutt brings 22 years of carrier sales leadership to Tropos, most recently serving for eight years as Group Vice President/Sales for Alcatel U.S. At Alcatel, he sold the full range of the company's mobility products to U.S. mobile operators such as Cingular, Verizon, Sprint/Nextel and T-Mobile. Mr. Shelnutt also held the positions of Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel NAFTA NAFTA in full North American Free Trade Agreement Trade pact signed by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico in 1992, which took effect in 1994. Inspired by the success of the European Community in reducing trade barriers among its members, NAFTA created the world's and Director of Switching Sales for Alcatel. He secured DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary equipment contracts with the Joint Procurement Consortium (JPC JPC Joint Parliamentary Committee (India) JPC John Paul College (Queensland, Australia) JPC Joint Propulsion Conference JPC Joint Planning Committee JPC Jpeg-2000 Code stream ) comprised of Ameritech, BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, and PacBell valued at more than $5 billion for Alcatel. He was key to establishing DSL in the market and served on the Board of the DSL Forum, an industry consortium for the definition and advancement of DSL. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shelnutt sold for Northern Telecom, ITT, 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. and Alta Telecom (a subsidiary of Telus). At Northern Telecom and Alta Telecom, he garnered significant experience and success selling into the U.S. municipal government market. Mr. Shelnutt holds a Bachelor of Business Administration “BBA” redirects here. For other uses, see BBA (disambiguation). The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business studies. from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. "With his experience, enthusiasm and industry stature, John is a tremendous addition to our executive team," said Ron Sege, 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. of Tropos Networks. "His track record in selling to C-level executives in carriers is a perfect fit for our business and will help Tropos Networks further expand our already rapidly growing sales." "I am extremely excited to join this dynamic, market leading company," said John Shelnutt, VP of Worldwide Sales for Tropos Networks. "I look forward to accelerating Tropos' building momentum in the carrier, ISP and municipal segments worldwide." About Tropos Networks, Inc. Tropos[R] Networks is the market leader in delivering metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network systems. Our systems have been selected to unwire more major league cities than all competitors combined and are installed in 30 countries. The patented Tropos MetroMesh[TM] architecture delivers the ultimate scalability, high capacity at low cost and great user experience demanded by carriers, municipalities and network users. Our unique expertise includes high-performance mesh software development, mesh RF engineering, metro-scale network planning, deployment and optimization, and navigating the municipal approval process. Tropos Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit www.tropos.com, call 408-331-6800 or write to info@tropos.com. Tropos is a registered trademark of Tropos Networks, Inc. Tropos Networks, MetroMesh, PWRP PWRP Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol , AMCE AMCE Appliance Manufacturer Conference & Expo and Metro-Scale Mesh Networking Defined are trademarks of Tropos Networks, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder(s). |
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