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Mahi Networks Appoints Bill Cadogan Chairman and CEO
Former ADC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
to Aggressively Scale Mahi Operations and Sales
PETALUMA, CA
October 25, 2004
Mahi Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of multi-service optical transport
and switching solutions, announced that Bill Cadogan has been appointed
Chairman of the Board and Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
Chris Rust, Mahi’s current Chief Executive Officer, will continue
to be an active contributor to the Company’s success as a member
of Mahi’s Board of Directors, and will return to the venture
capital business.
Bill Cadogan is the former Chairman and CEO of ADC Telecom. During
his tenure, ADC’s revenues grew from $200M to over $3.5B.
“I am excited to leverage my experience as Chairman and CEO
of a Fortune 500 company in my expanded role with Mahi Networks,”
said Mr. Cadogan, Senior Managing Director, Vesbridge Partners. “Mahi
has publicly announced a number of carrier deployments in the last
few months, and we are actively working several more large-scale deployments
that will be announced in the near future. My immediate focus will
be to personally connect with the major carriers and MSOs across the
industry to expand on Mahi’s early successes, and to build upon
Mahi’s market momentum as an emerging force in the service provider
infrastructure marketplace.”
“Bill Cadogan brings the experience and the relationships Mahi
needs to get to the next level of market success,” said Dana
Cooperson, Group Director of Optical Networks with RHK. “With
two field-proven leading edge products in active deployment, a growing
customer and revenue base, and money in the bank, Mahi has added an
industry ‘name brand’ to its experienced and capable management
team to help leverage its assets.
” Mahi Networks was founded in September 1999. Since its inception,
Mahi has secured several customers for its field-proven Mi7 Multi-Service
Core Aggregation System; the industry’s only Tb/s-scale packet
switch with fully integrated multi-vendor SONET/SDH ring aggregation
and TDM cross-connect functionality. In June 2004, Mahi announced
that it had completed the acquisition of Photuris Inc., bringing to
market the best-in-class Vx7 Multi-Service Core Transport System.
The combination of the Mi7 and the Vx7 has created the industry's
most advanced end-to-end metro core infrastructure solution for next
generation packet-based multiservice networks.
About Mahi Networks
Mahi Networks, Inc. develops and markets multi-service metro transport
and switching platforms that enhance the business models of service
providers worldwide. Mahi's Mi7 and Vx7 products, integrated intelligent
control plane, advanced network management platforms, and easy to
use network planning tools provide industry-leading packet and TDM
integration with fully automated optical services.
The Vx7 is the industry's first fully automated optical transport
system, integrating a fully automated optical layer and an open, intelligent
control plane to provide flexibility, ease of use, and touchless provisioning,
as well as dynamic, reconfigurable optical add/drop capabilities.
The Mi7 integrates SONET/SDH multiplexing with a 320-gigabit hybrid
TDM/packet switch, combining L1/L2 switching and transport to reduce
the cost of interconnection and to enable the delivery of enhanced
packet services.
Mahi couples its innovative technology with flexible applications
that enable service providers to efficiently manage the transition
to a simpler, lower cost, and converged infrastructure, thereby enabling
accelerated service fulfillment and significantly greater value creation
for the stockholders of service providers. For more information please
visit www.mahinetworks.com. Mahi Networks, Mi7, Vx7, Dx7, Mission7,
Versicolor, and the Mahi Networks logo are either registered trademarks
or trademarks of Mahi Networks, Inc. in the United States and\or other
countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein
may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
Editorial Contact:
Kevin Gallagher
Gallagher Group Communications
(925) 964-0905 direct
kevin@gg-comm.com
Ron Longo Mahi Networks
(707) 283-1025
rondlongo@mahinetworks.com
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