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DAVE STEHLIN - CETERUS NETWORKS


Full article published: 2/18/2005


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TWST: We'd like to begin, if you will, with a brief historical sketch of the company and the picture of the things you are doing at the present time?
Mr. Stehlin: Ceterus Networks provides a flexible transport solution that enables Ethernet as well as legacy services to be delivered by carriers such as Sprint or MCI or AT&T or SBC, to any location over copper or fiber networks. By transforming the legacy circuit networks to carry these new flexible packet-based Ethernet services, as well as legacy TDM services, Ceterus' products allow service providers to reach every customer with high-speed connectivity for product usage such as data transport, storage area network, wireless cell tower backhaul, and other enterprise services that are very important and critical to these large service providers. Ceterus as a company has been in place since 2001 and we are headquartered in Allen, Texas and we are privately held.

TWST: Could you describe the competitive landscape and the competitive advantages that you enjoy?
Mr. Stehlin: First of all, interestingly, in the past week there have been two major acquisition announcements. Number 1, SBC buying AT&T, and Number 2, today Verizon announcing that they are going to buy MCI. They are buying both of those companies very simply to get their enterprise customer base, which is a very lucrative customer base. Typically, strategic accounts or large enterprises, Fortune 1000s as well as some of the medium accounts. So, the enterprise service market, is heating up especially here in North America. From an equipment perspective, the side that Ceterus plays on, we find we compete against a variety of different technologies, but no direct head-to-head competitor as we're the first company to announce that we meet the new International Telecommunications Union standard that's in place for bonding of circuits together to form Ethernet connectivity.

 

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