WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FiberZone Networks, the leading provider of Automated Fiber Management (AFM) solutions for datacenters and networks, today named William Simmelink as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors. The appointment is part of scaling FiberZone's operations in the U.S. and worldwide to deliver large-scale customer deployments of its market leading AFM.
Bill Simmelink is an industry veteran with a track record of success over 30 years of experience in executive management, and extensive international experience in sales, marketing and business development in the communications industry. Prior to joining FiberZone, he served as President of the Americas and India for Coppergate Communications, an Israeli-based semiconductor networking company acquired by Sigma Designs. Previously Bill was President and General Manager of Texas Instruments' Voice-over-IP business unit. Under his leadership, the business experienced robust growth, positioning TI as the world's leading supplier of Voice-over-IP semiconductors and software. Before Texas Instruments, Bill served as Vice President Business Development at Telogy Networks which was acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999. Bill began his career at AT&T and was an Assistant Vice President at Hughes Network Systems.
"FiberZone's innovative product offering is fundamentally transforming the way fiber-optic connectivity is managed in datacenters and networks," said Simmelink. "I am excited to be part of this transformation and high-growth market opportunity for FiberZone."
"We welcome Bill's experience in building effective customer-focused organizations to FiberZone," said Dr. Hemant Kanakia, Chairman of FiberZone's Board of Directors. "Bill's leadership will guarantee that FiberZone is best equipped to address the demand we see in the market for our revolutionary offering" he added.
FiberZone's AFM has been deployed in major data centers in the U.S. and around the world, automating the last manually-operated element in today's networks – physical fiber connectivity. It allows remote and instant provisioning of new customers reducing operational expenses, eliminates cost of downtime, reduces security risks and human errors due to hands in the plant, and facilitates new service offerings by operators, enabling the transition to mission-critical cloud services.
About FiberZone Networks
FiberZone Networks delivers remote fiber connectivity solutions to datacenters and networks with its Automatic Fiber Management (AFM) product line, delivering reliability, flexibility, fault tolerance and management to the fiber infrastructure. FiberZone's AFM significantly increases network reliability and availability, reduces operating costs, minimizes network faults and human errors, and prevents revenue losses & SLA (Service Level Agreement) penalties. FiberZone's AFM product line utilizes patent-pending Latched Optical Coupling (LOCTM) technology that delivers reliable passive connectivity in a remotely-managed automated fiber management system. http://www.fiberzone-networks.com
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