Movaz Networks Inc. has made some interesting appointments of late. The company added John Beagley as its senior VP of global sales and Johnson Agogbua as it senior VP of network quality and customer service. Agogbua was formerly president of Zephion Networks, which splintered off from Broadband Office (BBO), a company Agogbua founded. Both BBO and Zephion came home feet-first. (see Zephion: Anatomy of a Debacle, Kleiner Readies BBO's Rebirth, and Kleiner Perkins Builds Backbone Carrier ).

Movaz reported a headcount of about 200 in late 2002, while the number hovers closer to 150 these days, sources say. In a May 28 press release, CEO Bijan Khosravi says Movaz will double the size of its sales and customer service teams in the next 12 months. The company says it now has five open position in sales and eight open jobs in customer service.

Pennsylvania components maker T-Networks Inc. has cut an indeterminable number of staff last week. "I can say that the company is smaller than it was last week," says Lauren Turkel, the company's HR director. In late April, it was announced that the company's chief financial officer, Keith Schneck, had left to join Neoware Systems Inc. Turkel says T-Networks CEO Aaron Fisher is now handling Schneck's duties.

Continuum Photonics Inc. has recently trimmed its ranks as well in the process of "reshaping resources," according to founder Aaron Bent. Interestingly, Bent says that those let go were primarily non-telecom people -- those focused on other businesses such as military, aerospace, and consumer products. Bent doesn't want to comment directly on how the telecom side of Continuum's business is doing, but says that there is an advertised opening for a VP of sales and other positions at the company.

Component maker Centellax Inc. has cut five people, leaving it with 23, according to a recent report in The (Santa Rosa, Calif.) Press Democrat (PD). Headcount has nothing to add, expect to point out that Centellax sounds like a prescription anti-depressant.

In nearby Petaluma, the PD reports that Sonoma County Job Link, a career counseling service, is shutting down its satellite office. Headcount guesses you can only say, "Get out of telecom!" so many times before you've worn out your welcome.

Correction: Headcount incorrectly intimated that Hatch Graham was done with his tour of duty at Bandwidth9 Inc. But then we got this note from Graham, who is also chairman of Wave7 Optics Inc. and interim CEO of Arroyo Optics.

"I'm still the CEO at Bandwidth9, which is making progress in its transition to another market, mainly datacom-oriented," Graham writes via email. "We've streamlined substantially, but have plenty of cash, and expect to complete the development work on a couple of exciting products by year's end."

Here's a summary of other industry appointments (and disappointments) from the past several days:

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— Phil Harvey, Senior Editor, Light Reading