Stoke, Inc. Appoints New Vice President of Engineering

2008-09-09 00:31:01 -

- Schwartz Communications Merrill Freund or Ronjini Mukhopadhyay, 415-512-0770 stoke@schwartz-pr.com Stoke, Inc., a leading developer of multi-access convergence gateways for network operators, today announced the appointment of Dave Arnold as vice president of engineering and director of Stoke India. Arnold brings more than 20 years technology experience to Stoke, in carrier class product development. He will oversee the product development centers in Santa Clara, California and Bangalore, India. Arnold will play a key role in growing Stoke India, building product delivery, engineering and customer support capabilities there for mobile broadband customers in India, Asia and Japan.

"The demand for 3G optimization and WiMax / 4G solutions is driving Stoke's global engagements. Consequently, our needs for product development, customer support and interoperability test resources are growing dramatically," said Vikash Varma, chief executive officer of Stoke. "We are expanding Stoke India to manage customer engagements in the region and to handle growing interoperability test requirements. Dave's leadership and experience building complex, carrier-class systems, together with his exceptional track record of building world class engineering and test teams, ensures that our products and solutions will keep ahead of market demand."

Prior to joining Stoke, Arnold was vice president of engineering at CloudShield, a company developing a platform serving DPI, security and service control markets. At CloudShield, Arnold was accountable for engineering, quality assurance, customer service, professional services and IT for DPI systems. Before CloudShield, Arnold served as the executive vice president of engineering and operations at Calient Networks, a photonic cross connects systems vendor in telecommunications. There, Arnold oversaw all engineering and operations functions. Arnold holds a bachelor of arts in computer science, with a minor in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

"The Stoke Session Exchange is an important and exciting departure from legacy telecom infrastructure systems, offering a clear technology advantage and support for a wide range of 3G and 4G network applications," said Arnold. "Stoke enables telecom operators to meet rigorous scalability and performance requirements while keeping costs low, a key requirement particularly in emerging markets (like India). I look forward to growing and managing development, support and test teams to meet expanding customer commitments, and growing Stoke's mobile broadband product portfolio."

About Stoke

Based in Santa Clara, Calif., Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks. Stoke's standards-based, integrated hardware and software platform - the Stoke Session Exchange (SSX) - uniquely addresses the data traffic management and cross-access mobility challenges associated with optimizing multimedia sessions for existing 3G mobile customers and for emerging 4G mobile networks including WiMAX and LTE. Stoke has received more than $60 million in funding from leading venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures and Reliance among others. For more information, visit www.stoke.com.

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