Packet Design Names CTO

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Packet Design, Inc., the leader in the field of route analytics technology for managing large IP networks, has named Dr. Cengiz Alaettinoglu chief technology officer. He reports to Packet Design CEO Jack Bradley.

Dr. Alaettinoglu has been a Fellow on Packet Design's technical staff since the company's formation in 2003. Previously he was with the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, where he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He was co-chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Routing Policy System Working Group, and has lectured and published widely at industry technical conferences and workshops.

"Not only has Cengiz been a thought leader in the development of Packet Design's pioneering route analytics products," Bradley said, "but through his work with the IETF he is involved in many ongoing developments that have had or will have a significant industry-wide impact on networking technology. He has always been the 'go-to' person on our team who determines the critical or difficult areas early and architects innovative solutions, while at the same time exhibiting a deep understanding of our customers' networks and the ability to come up with novel ways of addressing their management needs."

Packet Design Inc.