SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, today announced the addition of Saar Gillai to its world-class executive management team. Mr. Gillai will serve as Tropos Networks' Vice President of Engineering. In his new role, Mr. Gillai will be responsible for the continued development of the Tropos MetroMesh router and network management product line, reinforcing and extending the company's market and technology leadership.
Mr. Gillai brings more than 20 years of engineering and management experience to Tropos Networks. Most recently, Mr. Gillai was Vice President of Engineering for the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco Systems, where over the past four years he played a key role in building Cisco's enterprise WLAN product line to the number one position in the market, having developed and shipped more than $1.5 billion in products during his tenure. In addition, Mr. Gillai was instrumental in the company's WLAN acquisition and integration strategy, most recently playing a key role in the acquisition, and integration of WLAN equipment provider Airespace. During his tenure with Cisco, Mr. Gillai also held key management positions in product development for the Desktop Switching Business Unit and the Multi Service Switching Business Unit, where he worked closely with major service providers on next generation network architectures.
Prior to Cisco, Mr. Gillai held management positions at Newbridge Networks, where he played a significant role in the development of their ATMnet systems, as well as Rohde & Schwartz Canada and Wasserman Advisors.We are very fortunate to add an executive with Mr. Gillai's talent and experience to our team," said Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos Networks. "He brings a track record of engineering success in the networking market to our management team, and will help Tropos Networks further extend our capacity, scalability, network deployment and network management advantages over competitive solutions."
"I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to join such a dynamic company," said Saar Gillai, VP of Engineering of Tropos Networks. "It is rare to see a company achieve such immediate command of a market, and I look forward to utilizing the tremendous engineering talent within Tropos to ensure that our MetroMesh products will continue to be the chosen solution for metro-scale Wi-Fi deployments worldwide."
Tropos Networks also announced that Chris Rittler, formerly the company's Vice President of Product Development, has assumed the newly created position of Vice President of Business Development. In this role, Mr. Rittler will create partnerships with OEMs, strategic relationships with telecommunications equipment manufacturers and alliances with next-generation communications solutions partners.
"Mr. Rittler has worn two hats for an extended time, responsible for both engineering and business development," said Ron Sege. "This organizational change allows him to focus on the critical tasks of building relationships with OEM partners, leveraging telecommunications equipment manufacturers as a sales channel for Tropos products and creating a metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networking ecosystem."
About Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network systems. We deliver the fastest, lowest cost and simplest wireless broadband access solutions, as demonstrated by the world's largest installed base of metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks. Our innovative MetroMesh(TM) architecture with our patented Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol(TM) (PWRP) allows public safety agencies, municipalities and service providers to quickly and easily deliver city-wide fixed and mobile multi-megabit connectivity for IP-based voice, video and data applications. PWRP is the first and only metro-scale optimized, radio-agnostic, wireless mesh routing protocol, which does with routing software what other approaches attempt to do with expensive hardware. The result is 10x better price/performance than any other approach to the broadband last mile. Tropos Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit www.tropos.com, call 408-331-6800 or write to info@tropos.com.
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