Ekinops, a leading supplier of next-generation optical transport equipment, announced today the appointment of Patrick Gault, previously with Tellabs and Cisco, to the position of vice president of sales for the Americas, as the company expands in this region.
“We are extremely pleased to have Patrick lead our North American team” said Didier Brédy, EKINOPS CEO. “He is a very successful sales executive and has solid experience working with large carriers. The combination of his skills and our superior optical networking solutions, especially at 100G, will contribute to continued success and growth in the Americas.”
Patrick brings over twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry with many successes in the optical space and was most recently regional vice president of sales for Tellabs. Previously, he was a sales executive for White Rock Networks after having worked in sales management for Cisco Systems. Patrick started his career as a software engineer for Hughes Aircraft.
“I am truly excited to be part of EKINOPS at a critical time in our industry, as 100G is reshaping it” stated Patrick Gault. “The company has tremendous expertise at 100G and its solution has the strongest value proposition I have seen in a long time. My team’s role is to make sure carriers know how beneficial our new offering can be to them, from a performance and economic standpoint.”
Ekinops’ unique 100G technology, combined with its T-Chip, (Transport-on-a-Chip) concentrates the equipment’s transport intelligence into a highly compact and efficient design, that reduces costs, footprint, power consumption, delivery times to customers and provides unmatched performance for the EKINOPS 360 transport system.
About Ekinops
EKINOPS is a leading provider of open and fully interoperable Layer 1, 2 and 3 solutions to service providers around the world. Our programmable and highly scalable solutions enable the fast, flexible and cost-effective deployment of new services for both high-speed, high-capacity optical transport as well as virtualization-enabled managed enterprise services.
Our product portfolio consists of three highly complementary product and service sets: EKINOPS 360, OneAccess and Compose. EKINOPS 360 provides optical transport solutions for metro, regional and long-distance networks with WDM for high-capacity point-to-point, ring and optical mesh architectures, and OTN for improved bandwidth utilization and efficient multi-service aggregation.
OneAccess offers a wide choice of physical and virtualized deployment options for Layer 2 and Layer 3 access network functions.
Compose supports service providers in making their networks software-defined with a variety of software management tools and services, including the scalable SD-WAN Xpress. As service providers embrace SDN and NFV deployment models, EKINOPS enables future-proofed deployment today, enabling operators to seamlessly migrate to an open, virtualized delivery model at a time of their choosing.
A global organization, EKINOPS (EKI) - a public company traded on the Euronext Paris exchange - is headquartered in Lannion, France, and EKINOPS Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary, is incorporated in the USA.
Name : EKINOPS
ISIN Code : FR0011466069
Mnemonic code : EKI