Metaswitch Networks has appointed Ray Smets as senior vice president of field operations, reporting to CEO Kevin DeNuccio. Smets most recently served as vice president/general manager of the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Before that, he served as vice president of sales and marketing at Packeteer, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Netopia, and president of Network General at McAfee Security, Inc. http://www.metaswitch.com