Xten welcomes SIP veteran from Cisco
Santa Clara, October 6, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Xten (OTCBB: XNWK), a provider of VoIP (Voice over IP) and Video over IP SIP softphones, today announced the appointment of Sean ONeil as Director of Software Development. ONeil has 8 years of experience as a software development manager with a number of high technology companies including Cisco Systems in San Jose, California and Brooks Automation Software in Richmond, British Columbia. Highlights of ONeils career include his leadership in the development and delivery of a pioneering open source voice project called VOCAL, for Cisco-acquired startup Vovida Networks. Since VOCALs release in 2001, it has been downloaded by many of the significant telecom developers and providers..
Functionality and value in VoIP networks are moving to the edge, and that is where Xten lives. Xten produces the most reliable and feature-rich, standards compliant softphones in the industry, said Sean ONeil, newly appointed Director of Software Development of Xten. I am honored to be joining this team as we take softphones to the next level.
Everyone at Xten is excited about the wealth of VoIP experience Sean is bringing to the organization, said Erik Lagerway, President and Chief Operating Officer of Xten. His past experience managing software development teams at Cisco and Vovida will certainly be put to good use as we continue to push the envelope in SIP endpoint development.
About Sean ONeil
ONeil has spent the past 4 years as a Software Development Manager for Cisco Systems, Inc., where he managed 5 successful releases of Ciscos SIP Proxy Server and, led a team that developed Linux infrastructure for Cisco VoIP products. Previous to Cisco, and Vovida, ONeil held positions at Brooks Automation as Software Development Manager, where he led a team developing a Java based framework for semiconductor process automation control. ONeil has also held management and engineering positions at Hughes Aircraft, Systems Division and Asea Brown Boveri.
About Xten Networks, Inc.
Xten is a developer of award-winning, high-quality, carrier-grade VoIP (Voice over IP) and Video over IP SIP softphones for service providers, cable operators, Internet telephony service providers, IP PBX manufacturers and OEMs. Xten has a feature-rich FREE SIP softphone dubbed X-Lite, in addition to the fully featured X-PRO commercial softphone and eyeBeam, a SIP Video over IP softphone. Through its deployments with leading service providers, Xten has more than 480,000 IP endpoints deployed worldwide. For more information please visit http://www.xten.com. You may also visit Xten COO, Erik Lagerway’s blog at http://www.sipthat.com.
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Xten Networks, Inc.
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