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Continuous Computing Appoints Bob Wise as VP of Engineering
Mike Coward to assume full time CTO and strategy role
SAN DIEGO, CA - June 24, 2003 - San Diego, CA - Continuous Computing Corporation (CCPU), a leading provider of highavailability communications solutions for telecom equipment manufacturers, today announced that Bob Wise has agreed to join the executive team as VP of Engineering. Bob Wise brings over 15 years of communications product development and management experience to the CCPU team. As VP of Engineering, he will provide overall technology leadership to help CCPU deliver high quality platform solutions to telecom equipment manufacturers and will be responsible for management of the day to day engineering operations. CCPU also announced that Mike Coward will be assuming the full-time role of CTO to drive the company's product roadmap and strategy activity. "As a key visionary driving the adoption of Next Generation Networks, Bob brings multi-faceted experience to this role," said Ken Kalb, CEO , CCPU. "His technology expertise and industry-leading software development experience will be invaluable as we evolve our technology to deliver higher value-add solutions to a broader spectrum of customers."
Wise's background includes his most recent roles as VP Softswitch Development at Oresis Communications and CTO/SVP of Engineering at VSYS, an early pioneer in the soft-switch platform and VoIP technology market. In these roles, he actively contributed to all aspects of the product programs and was especially key in introducing industry-leading software development processes to ensure consistent and timely delivery of high quality software products and solutions.
"As we have honed our strategy toward delivering high availability platforms, software and middleware to the market we have grown our engineering organization significantly," said Mike Coward. "Wise, with his broad engineering expertise and experience, will enable us to continue to deliver high quality product and provide the foundation to drive an aggressive roadmap to meet customer needs."
Wise said, "The multi-tiered high-availability technology platform solutions, together with the high-performance Trillium protocol software solutions that CCPU has assembled together, creates a unique opportunity for CCPU to deliver high value-add, cost-effective application-ready solutions to telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Carriers are looking for Capex and Opex reduction and our platform solutions strategy is focused on enabling our OEM customers to deliver differentiated value, using standards-based building blocks to their carrier customers." Wise will be based out of CCPU's company headquarters in San Diego.
About Continuous Computing
Continuous Computing provides integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN). Over 150 customers worldwide benefit from the company's unique blend of customized professional services, Trillium protocol software, AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI systems, and BladeCenter hardware. Continuous Computing helps customers reduce platform lifecycle costs, optimize data delivery, and accelerate deployments of NGN, 3G/4G Wireless, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure. The company is ISO-9001 and CMMI certified and based in San Diego with development centers in China and India. For more information, visit www.ccpu.com.
Continuous Computing is a member of the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance (www.intel.com/go/ica), Communications Platforms Trade Association (www.cp-ta.org), Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org), IMS Forum (www.imsforum.org), Service Availability Forum (www.saforum.org), and the Blade.org ecosystem (www.blade.org).
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