Mangrove Systems, a start-up based in Wallingford, Conn., named John Gamelin as Vice President of Technology, and Paul Doolan as Vice President of Network Architecture. Gamelin previously served as co-founder and later, Vice President of Engineering with Tellium. Before that, he was a senior scientist at Bellcore. Doolan is credited with early development work in MPLS, including work on Cisco’s Tag Distribution Protocol (TDP). For two years he led the Item’s Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) work and was a founding member of the MPLS Forum. Doolan previously served with Cisco Systems, DEC, Ascom Nexion and most recently, Ennovate Networks as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President.
Mangrove Systems is developing a line of “Multiservice GFP Switching platforms that will bridge the divide between today’s TDM-based metro networks and the packet-centric networks of the future.”http://www.mangrovesystems.com
- In April 2003, Mangrove Systems secured over $20 million in financing for its development of a GFP-based Transport Aware Switching system. GFP (generic framing procedure) is a method of supporting a wide range of service types and protocols (TDM, Ethernet, ATM and storage transport) over embedded SONET infrastructure.
- Mangrove Systems was founded in mid-2002. The company is headed by Jonathan Reeves, who formerly founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Sahara Networks (acquired by Cascade and then Ascend), and who also founded Sirocco Systems (acquired by Sycamore Networks).