World Wide Packets Building Engineering Powerhouse; Gigabit Ethernet Broadband Access Manufacturer Attracting Top Talent.Business/High-Tech Editors SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2000 World Wide Packets, the premier solutions provider for optical broadband connectivity, is drawing top engineering talent to its research and development centers in Spokane, Wash., and Portland, Ore. Now, with the company's first commercial product in beta field trials, the staff is growing again. To facilitate growth, the company has just secured permanent facilities in Portland, moved into a newly purchased building in Spokane, and will soon begin construction of a major addition to the Spokane headquarters facility. "When we launched World Wide Packets operations in January, we had a staff of 10. Now, in September, we're pretty close to 120 employees, and over half of those are experienced and talented engineers. We offer them a workplace that is challenging and rewarding, as well as a lifestyle that promotes balance," said Bernard Daines, president and chief executive officer for World Wide Packets. "They can find both professional and personal rewards with our company and this region, and I'm pleased to say we continue to attract some of the best engineering talent in the business." World Wide Packets is developing optical broadband Ethernet to the Subscriber(TM) solutions that enable the delivery of voice, video and data over fiber networks. The company develops ASICs, and system-level hardware and software in its Spokane headquarters, and ASICs and network management technology in its Portland facility. "We added the Portland development center to more quickly address the demand for our products," said Kevin Daines, vice president of engineering for World Wide Packets. "At our Spokane headquarters we're building our ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , and system hardware and software teams. Portland, with its high concentration of networking engineers, gives us the opportunity to augment our development teams, and expedite time to market." World Wide Packets has assembled a proven team of top engineering talent lead by: Kevin Daines, Vice President of Engineering, oversees engineering teams in both Spokane and Portland. Daines is a veteran of Grand Junction Grand Junction, city (1990 pop. 29,034), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The shipping and processing center of a large ranch and irrigated farm region, it also serves the area's uranium, oil shale, gas, and Networks and Packet Engines. At Packet Engines, he led the development of the first commercially available Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. Media Access Controller, and in 1998 received the Outstanding Contributor Award for his work on the IEEE 802.3z (networking, standard) IEEE 802.3z - The IEEE committee working on standards for Gigabit Ethernet. Gigabit Ethernet standard. Based in Portland and leading the hardware and software teams are: John Wolcott, Director of ASIC Engineering, Portland, previously managed Intel Corporation's Gigabit Ethernet Controller development team, leading 11 engineers and overseeing development of a wide variety of Gigabit Ethernet hardware projects. Earlier he served as a lead design engineer and project leader for TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. in Beaverton, Ore. Vikas Aditya, Director of Network Management Software Engineering, has several years of experience in the communication and networking fields including serving as manager/technologist for Technology and Architecture Development at Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking in Portland. Prior to Intel, he was a consulting engineer for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) in Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla. Based in Spokane and leading the hardware and software teams are: Dack Busch, Director of Engineering, joined World Wide Packets after serving as Senior Manager of MPEG Encoding MPEG encoding is the process of capturing (digitizing) or converting (re-encoding) video and/or audio to one of several MPEG video and/or audio standards (codecs) for distribution (Internet, LAN) or for archiving to optical disc (CD, DVD). Systems at DiviCom in Milpitas, California Milpitas (IPA pronunciation: mɪlpitʌs; inhabitants are called 'Milpitans') is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of Highway 237 and generally between Interstate freeways 680 and where he led a team of 12 hardware and software engineers in the development of DiviCom's award winning HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates MPEG-2 Encoder. Prior to that Busch was a Senior Hardware Engineer for TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc (ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. ) in Sunnyvale, Calif., where he designed communication systems. Mike Chartier, Staff Software Developer, is a team leader for embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. development. Previously Chartier worked for DiviCom in Milpitas, Calif., and in the defense arena for Loral and Martin Marietta. World Wide Packets is also building an experienced team of ASIC engineers lead by: Stuart Johnson, Lead ASIC Architect, served as Design Engineer at Packet Engines leading several successful development efforts. He previously was a consultant for the high technology law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Jeff Walker, Principal Engineer, ASICs, joined World Wide Packets after serving as Director of ASIC Development at Packet Engines. Prior to joining Packet Engines he worked several years as a Staff Engineer designing ASICs for broadcast video equipment at the Grass Valley Group in Grass Valley, Calif. The World Wide Packets' engineering team has a long history of active involvement in standards efforts and industry associations. This rich, technical legacy is continued by the contributions of: Matthew Goldman, Principal Engineer, Video, comes to World Wide Packets from DiviCom in Milpitas, Calif., where he served as Director of Engineering of Advanced Systems Development. Prior to that he was a Consulting Engineer and Systems Architect for Digital Equipment Corp. in Shrewsbury, Mass. Matthew was a major contributor to and a Project Editor of the MPEG-2 standards, the baseline video compression and transport technology used in digital television and DVD-Videos. He has been an active contributor to the Advanced Television Systems Committee and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers or SMPTE, (IPA pronunciation: [sɪmpti] and sometimes [sʌmpti] and will continue to participate in industry standards activities. Jonathan Thatcher Thatch·er , Margaret Hilda. Baroness. Born 1925. British Conservative politician who served as prime minister (1979-1990). Her administration was marked by anti-inflationary measures, a brief war in the Falkland Islands (1982), and the passage of a , Principal Engineer, previously served as Vice President of Product Marketing for Picolight in Boulder, Colo., and prior to that worked in a variety of roles with IBM. He was an editor for the Fibre Channel Standard, sub-chair and clause editor of the IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet Standard for which he also received the 1998 Outstanding Contributor Award. He currently chairs the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. P802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet) Task Force. These engineers join a talented staff of industry professionals who are hard at work developing World Wide Packets' optical access broadband solutions. The company is conducting beta field trials of its subscriber gateway access device in the Grant County (Washington) Public Utility District's new fiber optic network. World Wide Packets will announce its initial set of products later this year, with large-scale commercial distribution of all products slated for early 2001. In Spokane, World Wide Packets has moved into its new 30,000 square foot headquarters building at 115 North Sullivan Road. The company plans to add an additional 30,000 square feet of space at that site with construction to begin this fall. In Portland, World Wide Packets has signed a five-year lease for 13,000 square feet of space in the AmberGlen Business Park in Beaverton. About World Wide Packets World Wide Packets is a premier solutions provider for optical broadband connectivity. The company designs, develops and manufactures optical access network solutions that are expected to revolutionize entertainment, e-business/e-commerce, education and e-living(TM). The term e-living captures the essence of lifestyle choices which utilize technology, in concert with knowledge appliances, to enhance day-to-day experiences, including telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. , healthcare, distance learning, and other traditional service options. World Wide Packets is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , established by Bernard Daines, founder of Packet Engines, Grand Junction Networks and Tidewater Associates. For more information on World Wide Packets, please visit our web site at www.worldwidepackets.com. Ethernet-to-the-Subscriber, e-living, World Wide Packets and the World Wide Packets logo are trademarks of World Wide Packets Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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