Ed Donelan, owner of Telecom Infrastructure Corp, an award winning Information Transport Solutions (ITS) corporation, has been elected President-elect of BICSI. Donelan will provide a leadership role as President-Elect for 2 years at the winter conference in Orlando the end of January 2006 before taking over as President in 2008, for an additional 2-year term. BICSI, a worldwide organization founded in 1974, boasts over 17,000 members in more than 100 countries.
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McLeodUSA Incorporated announced today that its Joint Prepackaged Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”) became effective on Friday, January 6, 2006, and that the Company has emerged from Chapter 11. As previously reported, McLeodUSA’s Plan was approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois on December 16, 2005, after having received the affirmative vote of more than 90 percent of the creditors who voted on the Plan. [Read more…]

Speaking yesterday at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show here, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg will outline the unique role his company is playing in delivering a total broadband experience to customers and how Verizon’s new multimedia networks are evolving to ultimately deliver digital content on any device — anywhere, anytime. [Read more…]

DAX Technologies was accepted into the membership of the TeleManagement Forum (http://www.tmforum.org). The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is a non-profit global organization providing leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services. The TM Forum membership is open to over 450 companies and includes incumbent and new-entrant service providers, computing and network equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and customers of communications services. TM Forum has been actively contributing to the Information and Communications Services (ICS) Industry for over 15 years.
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Psytechnics, the global leader in voice and video quality assessment software for the telecoms industry, has appointed Nav Chander as director of product management.

In his role, Chander will be responsible for driving the product requirements and market growth for the company’s voice and video quality assessment tools in VoIP, IPTV, and mobile applications as well as ensuring that Psytechnics continues to lead the test and measurement industry for the telecoms market.

For the past 20 years, Chander worked in a variety of senior product management and marketing positions at Motorola, 3Com, Alcatel/Newbridge Networks and SHL Systemhouse. His innovations include the industry’s first frame relay access products for VoIP, the first multiservice router while at Motorola Codex and the first layer 3 switching product while at 3Com.

“I am eager to work with the telecom industry’s top minds and collaborate on a set of exciting and important technologies that will shape the quality of video and voice communications in the future,” said Chander. “Psytechnics’ innovation stems from delivering not only what each customer needs now but also predicting what the customer will experience with the new mobile and triple play services. I look forward to working with the inventive team whose foresight has created the industry standard.”

“Nav Chander is a tremendous asset to Psytechnics,” said CTO Dr. Mike Hollier. “We are fortunate to have someone of his caliber leading our marketing efforts. His experience will ensure that Psytechnics continues to create industry leading technology in the future. Mr. Chander will be instrumental in Psytechnics’ continued success as the company continues to grow.”

Tekmark Global Solutions LLC, one of the largest privately held providers of information technology, communications and consulting services to companies worldwide, today announced that Bill Wanke has been named to the dual roles of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer.

Mr. Wanke fills these responsibilities after a remarkable 25-year career at Telcordia Technologies where he most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Telcordia’s Software Systems Organization. At Telcordia, Mr. Wanke managed a team of 2,000 software professionals, leading the organization to impressive results in productivity, quality and service delivery excellence.

“Bill will help expand our current market share by leveraging his industry experience in technology and operations,” said Guy DelGrande, president of Tekmark Global Solutions. “Bill’s proven leadership ability and his vast experience will help Tekmark to continue to grow as a global provider of information technology and telecom services.”

Previously, Mr. Wanke was the Vice President of several of Telcordia’s OSS business units with responsibility for business and software operations. Under his leadership, Mr. Wanke’s business units realized significant earnings increases. Mr. Wanke began his career as a software engineer and held several engineering and management positions where he directed OSS and network systems platform development.

“Tekmark is a market leader with unmatched capability, outstanding leadership, and a long track record of success and customer delight,” said Wanke, “The chance to leverage these assets in a robust services marketplace is a tremendous opportunity – I’m very excited by the prospects and look forward to helping the company to realize it’s potential.”

Wanke holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

11/26/05 – SR Telecom Inc. (TSX: SRX, Nasdaq: SRXA), a vendor of licensed OFDM solutions for broadband access networks announced that it has extended its agreement with BlueTree Advisors to continue to retain the services of William Aziz, the Company’s current Interim Chief Executive Officer and President.

Mr. Aziz is BlueTree Advisors’ Managing Partner, and will provide management services to SR Telecom through to December 31, 2006. Mr. Aziz was initially named as Chief Restructuring Officer in April of this year. He has had extensive experience in turnaround situations, holding senior management positions in a number of publicly-traded and privately-held entities.

In addition, Paul Griswold, named to SR Telecom’s Board of Directors in August, becomes Vice Chairman of the Board and Secretary, effective immediately. Mr. Griswold is CEO of SLI Holdings International, LLC of Purchase New York. Mr. Griswold has also held senior positions at Paxar Corporation and Pactiv Corporation, and was Vice President of Packaging Development and Procurement for Pepsi International.

“As recently announced, our third quarter showed tangible results of our restructuring initiatives. We are confident that under Mr. Aziz’s leadership we have the right management team in place to ensure further improvement,” stated Company Chairman Lionel Hurtubise.

SR TELECOM designs, manufactures and deploys versatile, Broadband Fixed Wireless Access solutions. A pioneer in the industry, its solutions include equipment, network planning, project management, installation and maintenance. SR Telecom is a principal member of WiMAX Forum, a cooperative industry initiative which promotes the deployment of broadband wireless access networks by using a global standard and certifying interoperability of products and technologies.