ACTON, Mass. -- Tenor Networks(TM), delivering the industry's first Core Service Switch that enables the convergence of multiple services onto a packet-based network, today announced the appointment of Araldo Menegon to the position of senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. In this role, Menegon will have responsibility for sales, field support and professional services reporting to Tenor President and CEO David Tolwinski. Araldo joins Tenor Networks from Cisco Systems, where he was most recently the area director of AT&T Global Operations responsible for all sales, marketing and engineering. Prior to this role, Menegon was Cisco's first director of Canadian Service Provider Operations. Menegon joined Cisco in 1996 and during his tenure focused exclusively on the service provider and carrier marketplace. Menegon was a key contributor to the shaping of Cisco's service provider initiatives focused on quality and reliability, fidelity of commitments, channel and provisioned services, service creation and business development programs.

"Bringing more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Araldo is a valuable addition to the Tenor executive management team," said Tolwinski. "With our product now generally available, Araldo is the ideal person to lead our sales organization, and he will be instrumental in enabling us to achieve our next set of company milestones."

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