Cedar Point Promotes Zanyk to Head Americas Sales; Adds Two New Sales Vice Presidents for North America

Zanyk, a 12-year veteran of telecommunications sales, previously had served as managing director, Latin America for Cedar Point. In his new role, he will be responsible for accelerating the Company's growth within the cable, telco, university and enterprise markets inNorth America,Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean.

In addition, Cedar Point announced that Ed Flannery, a founder of Opticom and a veteran of two dozen years in the networking industry, and Bart Green, who most recently was vice president of sales for OneVoice, have been named to the positions of vice president, sales, with responsibilities for the Northeast and Western regions, respectively. Flannery and Green will focus on the emerging market for Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System among Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) and Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs).

"Chris Zanyk's outstanding management skills and his experience in working with cable, wireline and wireless voice providers will help us drive significant expansion of Cedar Point's footprint in new markets in the Western Hemisphere," said J.C. Murphy, executive vice president, worldwide sales for Cedar Point Communications. "At the same time, the addition of Ed Flannery and Bart Green to our sales group will accelerate our ability to bring to the broadband access market the same simple, cost-effective voice switching solutions that already have generated substantial new revenues for cable system operators."

Since joining Cedar Point, Zanyk has been responsible for establishing the Company as a leading vendor of voice switching solutions in the CALA region, with a current base of 14 customers in 12 countries. Previously, he had spent 10 years with Nortel in Latin America, and had responsibility for overseeing Nortel's operations inChile andBolivia from 2002-06. Zanyk holds a B.A., an MBA and an MS in International Business from the University ofMiami.

Prior to joining Cedar Point, Flannery served as vice president, business development for PingTel, Corp., a Woburn, MA provider of SIP-based enterprise communications platforms. Previously, he spent seven years with Opticom, a business services management software company that he helped to found based in Andover, MA. Flannery also has served in similar capacities with four other New England firms: Cabletron; Fibronics International; Timeplex and WolfData. He holds a B.S. from St. Anselm College.

Green spent the last three years with OneVoice, during which time he managed and grew U.S. sales for the ShoreTel IP PBX. He served as director of satellite sales for Phonex Broadband from 2002-05, and was the company's leading sales executive for three consecutive years. Green began his career with 3 Com/U.S. Robotics as a wireless account executive, and rose to territory sales manager before leaving the company in 2001. He is a graduate of Weber State University, with a degree in Political Science.

About Cedar Point Communications

Cedar Point Communications' integrated switching platforms enable the scalable, simplified and cost-effective delivery of VoIP and multimedia services for network operators. Designed to provide carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing network integrity, security and privacy, Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System supports legacy circuit, NCS and SIP-based voice services, as well as a migration path to IMS. The company is based in Derry, NH with an office in Meersburg,Germany. For more information, please visit http://www.cedarpointcom.com.

SOURCE Cedar Point Communications