Xten Appoints Robert Sparks as CTO

Xten has appointed Robert Sparks as its Chief Technology Officer, succeeding Rob Raymond, who will stay on with the company as Vice President of Engineering.



Sparks has been an active contributor to IETF protocol development, with a strong focus on improving interoperability of SIP and SIMPLE implementations. He spent the past 4 years as a principal engineer with dynamicsoft. Before that, he was a senior engineer with MCI WorldCom, where he was co-designer of MCI's SIP-based IP communications infrastructure; responsible for driving vendor development of SIP business telephones; and created and maintained a PC SIP user agent for use in interoperability testing and SIP/RTP protocol research.



Xten is a developer of carrier-grade SIP-based Voice and Video over IP software and softphones for service providers, cable operators, internet telephony service providers and OEMs. The company said it has more than 400,000 IP endpoints deployed worldwide. http://www.xten.com