PARIS -- Ekinops today announced the appointment of Didier Bredy as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Bredy will use his extensive experience in marketing and sales to accelerate Ekinops’ global expansion.

Ekinops sells next-generation optical network equipment designed to facilitate the aggregation and transport of high-capacity Ethernet (GbE and 10 GbE) and Fibre Channel traffic directly to the DWDM or optical layer of the network. As such, Ekinops simplifies the network by offering a smooth transition from SONET/SDH transport to more efficient Ethernet-over-DWDM transport for the delivery of bandwidth-intensive IP services, including video, data and voice.

“I am very excited to join Ekinops at this time. Its tremendous expertise in optical networks and breadth of aggregation and transport solutions allow service providers to increase capacity and revenue from their fiber networks,” said Bredy. “In fact, Ekinops already has deployed 500 systems in Europe and North America because customers have found that our unique, programmable hardware platform gives them significant cost savings and a highly scalable offering for the rapid deployment of 10Gbit/s solutions.”

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