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PACKET DESIGN NAMES CONSTANTINOS BASSIAS
VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING
PALO ALTO , Calif., June 20, 2006 – Packet Design, Inc., has named Constantinos Bassias vice president of engineering. Reporting to CEO Jack Bradley, Bassias is responsible for development of the company's Route Explorer and Traffic Explorer lines of IP network management solutions.
Bassias comes to Packet Design from C-COR, Inc., where, as platform director, he was responsible for engineering and product line management of the company's flow-networking products. He joined C-COR through the company's acquisition of Lantern Communications, maker of switches for metropolitan-area networks, where he served as vice president of engineering. Previously he had been vice president of engineering at wireless router vendor Chantry Networks. Bassias has also held senior engineering and engineering management positions with Motorola, Memotec Communications, Nortel Networks and Lockheed-Martin Canada.
"Costas has a strong background in networking and network management, along with solid experience managing engineering teams both small and large," said Bradley. "His depth of technical expertise, combined with a very pragmatic style, has helped him see many products successfully through development and delivery to the markets Packet Design serves. We are delighted to welcome him on board."
A resident of San Jose, Bassias, 48, holds a B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from National Polytechnic University in Athens, Greece; an M.Sc. in statistical physics from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec; and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics with a specialty in neural networks, also from Concordia. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Order of Engineers of Greece.About Packet Design, Inc.
Packet Design, Inc., pioneered the field of route analytics and is the leading supplier of network appliances that provide routing-layer visibility into IP networks. The company's flagship products are Route Explorer, which creates an accurate layer 3 topology map and analyzes routing events to let network engineers quickly pinpoint and resolve routing and other network problems; and Traffic Explorer, which integrates traffic-flow information onto that map to provide the first end-to-end, "topology-aware" view of network traffic. Packet Design products today help manage networks in global enterprises, educational institutions, government agencies, and the world's largest service providers.
Packet Design, Inc., was spun out in March 2003 from Packet Design, LLC, the fourth networking company started by entrepreneurs Judy Estrin and Bill Carrico, who previously founded Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices and Precept Software. The company has raised $25 million in venture funding from Advanced Technology Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Masthead Venture Partners, Allegis Capital and Packet Design, LLC. For more information, visit http://www.packetdesign.com.
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