ATIS Welcomes Acterna as Member
Company – Acterna President, Telecom Division Helmut Berg
Joins ATIS Board of Directors
March 19, 2004,
Washington, D.C. – ATIS, the leader in communications
and information technology standards development, is pleased to
announce that Acterna has joined ATIS as a member company. Representing
Acterna on the ATIS Board of Directors is Helmut Berg, President,
Telecom Division.
As President of the Telecom Division, Berg is responsible for
a number of business units addressing global test and management
solutions for telecom field service, fiber optics, optical transport,
centralized test systems and software. Berg has been with Acterna
since 1993, and has held diverse leadership roles within the
company.
“Acterna looks forward to playing an active role in ATIS
as the organization takes on some of the communications industry’s
most critical technical and operational issues,” said
Berg. “The standards development work performed at ATIS
plays a major role in shaping the industry’s future. As
a member of the Board of Directors, we will help lead these
efforts and use our participation in this important body to
enhance communications test and management solutions for network
operators around the globe.”
“I’m pleased to welcome Acterna to ATIS and Helmut
Berg to the Board of Directors,” said Susan M. Miller,
president and CEO of ATIS. “Acterna is a recognized leader
in providing communications test solutions for network operators,
and by becoming and ATIS member Acterna will have the opportunity
work with the industry’s leading service providers, manufacturers,
software providers and other companies involved in ATIS’
priority standards work.”
About ATIS
ATIS is a technical planning and standards development
organization that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting
technical and operations standards for the communications and
related information technologies industry worldwide using a
pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Over 1,200 participants
from more than 400 communications companies are active in ATIS’
22 industry committees, and its Incubator Solutions Program.
www.atis.org
About Acterna
Acterna is the world’s largest provider of communications
test solutions for telecommunications and cable network operators.
A trusted communications test partner for more than eight decades,
Acterna offers an unmatched portfolio of award-winning instruments,
systems, software and services that help its customers reduce
network costs while improving performance and reliability. Headquartered
in Germantown, Maryland, USA – with European and Asia-Pacific
operations based in Eningen, Germany and Hong Kong – Acterna
serves nearly every major communications service provider and
equipment manufacturer around the world through a skilled sales
and support organization in 31 countries.
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