Sunday, August 10, 2003

Ipsum Networks Appoints MetaSolv Co-Founder as New CEO

Ipsum Networks, a start-up based in Philadelphia, announced the appointment of Dana R. Brown as its new CEO, replacing company co-founder and current CEO, Dr. Roch Guerin, will assume the role of chief scientist for Ipsum. Brown co-founded MetaSolv in 1992 and served as vice president of marketing. Prior to co-founding MetaSolv, Brown was with Texas Instruments' Advanced Information Management division, where she was responsible for identification of vertical markets for commercialization of applications developed using the company's software development platform.
http://www.ipsumnetworks.com

  • In April 2003, Ipsum Networks raised $6 million in Series B funding for its development of IP management solutions that assure application infrastructure availability. Ipsum's Route Dynamics solution monitors the network's routing protocols to provide a real-time, Layer 3 view of IP network operations. Ipsum said its solution delivers a picture of the logical health of a routed network, which can lead to improved service availability, operational efficiency, fault detection and prevention. The new funding was led by Rho Ventures of New York City, along with participation by Ipsum's original investor, Sevin Rosen Funds.



  • Ipsum Networks was co-founded by Dr. Roch Guerin, who is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Networks at the University of Pennsylvania and also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of France Telecom and Samsung, and Dr. Raju Rajan, who previously spearheaded the development of a policy based network management system for IP QoS at AT&T Labs.