Menachem Abraham Joins Onex Board

BEDFORD, Mass. -– OnexTM Communications, a Boston area company developing communications components based on breakthrough architecture for optical networks, today announced that industry veteran Menachem Abraham has joined its board of directors. Abraham is co-founder, President and CEO of optical networking startup Mintera Corporation. Previously he was President of Enterprise Internetworking Systems at Lucent Technologies after its acquisition of Prominet, a pioneer in Gigabit Ethernet Switch Routers, where he was co-founder President and CEO. Prior to Prominet, Abraham was on the founding team of Chipcom where he served for eleven years as Senior Vice President of Product Development.

“We see Menachem’s commitment to our board as further validation of our network vision and VLSI architecture which fully supports all service types in the metro optical backbone” said Phil Nyborg, President of OnexTM. “Menachem is a very highly regarded technical leader in the broadband data switching space, and we are honored to have him commit to Onex and our board.”

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