Marcus Weldon appointed President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs
Dr. Marcus Weldon has been appointed President of Bell Labs, replacing Gee Rittenhouse, who has has decided to retire from ...
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FCC Chairman Appoints Key Staff
Newly confirmed FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced key staff appointments, including: Ruth Milkman, Chief of Staff -- previously served as ...
Aviat Networks Hires Ericsson Exec
Aviat Networks has hired Ola Gustafsson as senior vice president, product and services portfolio management. He most recently served as ...
Wheeler Confirmed as FCC Chairman
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Thomas Wheeler as Chairman of the FCC and Michael P. O'Rielly as FCC Commissioner ...
Ixia’s CEO Resigns over Misstated Credentials
Vic Alston has resigned as President and CEO of Ixia and as a member of its board of directors. Ixia ...
Equinix Appoints Ihab Tarazi as CTO
Equinix appointed Ihab Tarazi as chief technology officer (CTO). He will be responsible Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) network operations, ...
Calxeda Adds Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation to its Board
Calxeda, a start-up developing ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip designed for a new generation of high-density servers, announce today that Frank Frankovsky, ...
Cable & Wireless Communications Names CEO
Cable & Wireless Communications named Phil Bentley as its new CEO, replacing Tony Rice, with effect from 1 January 2014. ...
Ken Klein Steps Down as President of Wind River
Ken Klein resigned as President of Wind River, the Intel subsidiary that develops embedded software for intelligent connected systems. The ...
Huawei Appoint Xu as CEO for 6 Month Rotation
Huawei announced the appointment of Mr. Eric Xu as it next rotating CEO. He will serve as Acting CEO of ...
Radisys Appoints Steve Collins Vice President of Global Sales
Radisys announced the appointment of Steve Collins as Vice President of Global Sales. Previously, Collins served as VP and GM ...
AT&T Appoints Beth Mooney to Board
AT&T appointed Beth Mooney to its board of directors. Mooney is chairman and chief executive officer of KeyCorp. She will ...
Ericsson Appoints CIO
Ericsson announced the appointment of Anders Thulin as Senior Vice President Business Excellence and CIO. He will head the newly ...
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