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Continuing to Bolster
Management Team, SOMA Networks
Names Joe Buccino Vice President of Engineering
Developments and Commercial Deployments
San Francisco, July 17, 2002 – SOMA Networks today announced that
Joe Buccino has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering. A
high-tech veteran with a proven track record of successfully managing complex
development and engineering operations in periods of significant growth, Buccino
oversees SOMA Networks' world-class engineering team, which has developed the
industry's leading wireless broadband system, offering broadband Internet access
and carrier-grade voice services to the residential and small-office market.
"With the success of our commercial operations in both North America and
abroad, SOMA Networks is scaling up to handle customers of all sizes and
increasing numbers of commercial deployments. Joe Buccino brings
innovative and tested leadership to our engineering operations at this critical
stage of the company's development," said Mark Rau, senior vice president,
engineering and operations, at SOMA Networks. "With a diverse
technical background encompassing software development, hardware development,
and wireless systems and nearly two decades of management experience in
challenging technology environments, Joe is superbly equipped to lead the
creative engineers who develop the next-generation wireless broadband systems
that we market and deploy around the globe."
"As its customer engagements and key partnerships demonstrate, SOMA
Networks has emerged as the industry-leading provider of wireless broadband
systems, with its large cell coverage, non-line-of-sight access, and
self-installable subscriber equipment," said Buccino. "I am excited to
contribute my management experience and technical expertise as SOMA Networks
ramps up its engineering operations to handle next-generation system development
and commercial deployments, including those currently in progress with NTT
Communications in Japan and Always On Network in the United States."
Since 1980, Buccino has held management positions at a variety of technology
companies, most recently enterprise software developer Avotus Corporation, where
he served as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to his work at Avotus,
Buccino spent nearly ten years as Vice President of Engineering at Psion
Teklogix Inc. (formerly Teklogix Inc.), where he led the creation of the
company's market-leading wireless data communications systems and played a key
role in the successful sale of Teklogix to Psion Plc. in 2000.
Previously, Buccino was the Director of Engineering at Electrohome, Limited, and
a Research Scientist at Bell Northern Research. Buccino earned master's
and bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University
of Waterloo.
About SOMA Networks
Integrating the latest advances in wireless broadband, distributed computing,
and Internet technologies, SOMA Networks' unique system allows anyone to become
a full-service telecommunications service provider offering a feature-rich
package of carrier-grade voice and broadband Internet services to the
residential and small-office market. SOMA Networks offers the only
economically viable "last-mile" telecommunications solution for
service providers that meets the needs of today's residential and small-office
users. Its fully converged system offers ubiquitous service, rapid market
entry and scalability, and quick, inexpensive creation of multimedia services.
Founded in 1998, SOMA Networks has development centers located in San
Francisco, California; Richardson, Texas; and Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario.
For more information about SOMA Networks, visit http://www.somanetworks.com.
Contact:
Emily Kujo
Lois Paul & Partners, LLC, a Fleishman-Hillard Company
415-946-5207 (Direct)
415.946-5201 (Fax)
emily_kujo@lpp.com