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D2 Technologies Opens Boston Design Center for Mobile Device Software Development

Posted on: Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 06:00 CDT

D2 Technologies announces today that it has opened a Design Center in

Maynard, MA, just outside of Boston. The Center will be focused on the

development of software products for mobile communication devices.

Zigurd Mednieks, chief software architect, who reports to Matt Randmaa,

vice president of engineering, heads the Design Center. Mednieks is a

widely respected technologist, and the author of books and book chapters

on telephony and programming published by leading publishers. D2 is best

known for its vPort software, which is deployed in residential products,

and is designed for CPE products such as wired/wireless Voice-enabled

Terminal Adapters, routers and gateways, as well VoIP phones and

handsets.

Technology Authority Zigurd Mednieks Heads the Design Center

Zigurd Mednieks joins D2 from JumpTap, where he was chief architect for

handset technologies. Previously, he was CTO at mobile games maker

Chasma, where he pioneered mobile multiplayer games. Prior to Chasma, at

Erickson Juniper Networks, he helped create the J20 Gateway GPRS Serving

Node.

Zigurd is an entrepreneur and a technology industry veteran. He has

started, raised financing for and sold companies. He has 20 years of

experience in visual and voice user interfaces, embedded systems for

telecom infrastructure, CPE telephony systems, unified messaging,

broadband voice/data systems and network applications development. He

studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

"D2 is making a strong push into the mobile

communication products arena, to complement our existing leadership

position with devices for the CPE market via such products as VoIP

gateways and Voice over WiFi handsets," says

Dr. David Wong, president of D2. "We are very

fortunate to have an industry expert with the stature of Zigurd join us

to head the Boston Design Center. We now have Design Centers in Boston

and Taiwan that are closely integrated with our R&D staff in Santa

Barbara, CA, which is known worldwide for its VoIP advances."

The Boston Design Center is currently in a staffing mode. It is located

at:

2 Clocktower Place, Suite 360

Maynard, MA 01754.

About D2 Technologies

D2 Technologies, Inc. is the world's leader in softDSP-based software

solutions for the rapidly growing VoIP market. Its software spans both

enterprise and consumer devices, such as gateways and WiFi handsets.

Since the company's original founding in 1993, D2's

VoIP solutions have been widely deployed in thousands of systems that

process billions of minutes of phone calls every month. D2 licenses its

software to systems manufacturers worldwide who develop a wide variety

of communications products for consumers and businesses. The company's

software runs on the platforms of several major semiconductor vendors.

The company's headquarters is located at 104

W. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Additional information about D2

is available at www.d2tech.com.

D2's Asia sales/support office is located at

Room 6, 5F, No.120, Sect 2, Gongdaowu Road, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Tel:

+886-3-5715339.

Source: Business Wire

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