CIRPACK, developer of next generation voice switches for operators' infrastructures, today announced that Alain Bravo has been appointed Special Advisor to Cirpack CEO. Alain Bravo joined the company's Board of Directors one year ago. He formerly served as France Telecom's Executive Vice President-Operations from 1980 to 1985, after which he joined Vivendi where he founded SFR, the first French private mobile operator. As of 1995, he joined Alcatel as President of Mobile Networks Division and then Director of Research & Technology. He graduated from the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris. He is Chairman of the Board of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne and President of the Advisory board of the French National Network of Research in Telecommunications. http://www.cirpack.com