Santel Hires Marketing Whiz

NEWARK, Calif. -- Santel Networks, a provider of dynamic signal enhancement solutions for optical networks, today announced the appointment of Judith Meester as marketing director. Reporting to Santel Network's John Keating, COO and vice president of marketing and business development, Ms. Meester is responsible for worldwide product marketing in the optical communications transport systems segment. Ms. Meester, a trained physicist, brings over 18 years of marketing and engineering expertise across optical, networking, and semiconductor products. She served most recently as group product marketing manager, High Speed Communications ICs at Infineon Technologies, formerly Siemens Components. While at Infineon, Ms. Meester was responsible for all product marketing management functions in North America for high speed communications integrated circuits (OC-48, OC-192, OC-768 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet). Previously, Ms. Meester was a member of technical staff at Lucent Technologies (then AT&T) Bell Laboratories, where she conducted research on photonic circuits and systems. More recently, she held marketing positions at Lucent Technologies, as well as applications engineering positions at both Lucent Technologies and Astral Point Communications. According to John Keating, COO and vice president of marketing and business development for Santel Networks, "Judy has the essential big picture perspective for addressing our customers' needs as someone who has worked with both the vendors developing optical equipment and the carriers who use that equipment. Her valuable scientific, engineering and marketing background makes her an ideal addition to the company." Santel Networks Inc.