Rivulet Communications Announces Appointment of CTO, CSO
September 5, 2008
HERNDON, Va., Feb 26, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Rivulet Communications, whose technology dramatically improves the performance of IP networks, today announced changes to its executive management team. Chris Roller has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Steven Rogers, Rivulet's founder, will become the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for the company. Roller also will retain his current title of SVP, Engineering. Both appointments are effective immediately.
"This is an exciting and positive change for Rivulet," said Ed Kennedy, president and CEO. "In Chris's expanded role, he will guide the company's technical direction as we continue to develop state-of-the-art products for our target markets. Steven, who is the company's founder and invented our key technologies, will bring his extensive knowledge, experience and innovative talents to bear on advancing our product strategies for these markets."
Roller's 20 years of experience in R&D and product development have included hands-on leadership, technical direction, and problem-solving on a diverse set of difficult engineering problems with demanding schedules. He has successfully led a wide variety of product development efforts for the home entertainment (Hillcrest Labs), telecommunications (Coherent, Ocular Networks, Tellabs), and defense (E-Systems, Raytheon) industries.
Rogers, with more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry, brings his vision and industry leadership to his new role of CSO. He previously founded and was CEO of three network product companies: Cryptek, Objective Communications, and Cetacean Networks. His extensive telecom and networking background also includes management and development work at Unisys, American Satellite, and COMSAT Mobile Telesystems.
About Rivulet Communications
Headquartered in Virginia's Dulles Technology Corridor, Rivulet Communications offers a complete product suite that enables medical, government and carrier customers to flawlessly transport high-bandwidth, mission-critical and real-time applications over existing IP networks. With Rivulet products, organizations can realize the economic benefits of IP-based convergence without compromising application quality or network utilization. Rivulet supports applications, including IPTV, VoIP, video, ATM, and TDM (circuit emulation), in their native modes while guaranteeing a quality of service (QoS) equivalent to traditional TDM networks. For more information, please visit http://www.rivulet.com .
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