Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 17, 2004
CHARLES CORBALIS is president and CEO of Calient Networks, where he has
been instrumental in setting the company's long-term vision of photonic
networking, and in recruiting and directing a world class engineering
and management team. With over twenty years of precedent-setting
experience in carrier-class data communications, Mr. Corbalis is
credited with the early development and delivery of multiple waves of
high-performance, high-reliability switch and software platforms. His
professional peers have dubbed him the "Father of Frame Relay", and he
is a pioneering architect of ATM switching. He was most recently vice
president and general manager of Cisco Systems' Multiservice Switching /
WAN Business Unit, which he built to $700 million in annual sales. He
worked closely with the technical and marketing leadership within many
service providers such as AT&T, WorldCom, NTT and Telecom Italia, to
tailor and adapt the Cisco products for their specific frame relay and
ATM service offerings. Mr. Corbalis was co-founder and vice president of
engineering at StrataCom, Inc., where his architecture and
implementation led to the industry's first fast-packet, carrier-class
switching platform and high-performance products such as the Stratacom
IPX, BPX, AXIS and StrataView+, prior to the company's acquisition by
Cisco for $4 billion in 1996. He holds fifteen patents in the areas of
data communications systems, protocols and software, and received the
1996 Dvorak Award for his contributions to frame relay and fast-packet
switching. He earned his BSEE/CS from the University of California,
Berkeley and his MSEE from Stanford University. Profile
Mr. Corbalis: Calient Networks is a supplier of two technologies will be
very important in building next generation
