ADARA Networks Appoints Dr. Qiaobing Xie Chief Technologist

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ADARA Networks,^® a global software company in the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) space, today announced that Dr. Qiaobing Xie has been named Chief Technologist.

As Chief Technologist, Dr. Xie will play a critical role in the innovation and direction of ADARA's next-generation SDN and cloud management solutions. He will also lead the design and development of the ADARA Sky Controller. 

"Dr. Xie is one of the foremost minds in networking and a leading telecommunications expert who has contributed several of the most foundational technologies in use today," said Eric Johnson, CEO, ADARA. "He has been a key member of ADARA's development team, leading the company's Mobility, Unified Communications, SDN, and Operating Systems Groups, and the development of several of ADARA's industry-leading technologies in network virtualization, SDN, and cloud management."  

At ADARA, Dr. Xie's inventions include key SDN technologies, such as ADARA's SDN Ecliptic High AvailabilitySDN Controller, Horizon Meta Controller, ADARA Layer 1-7 Control Plane (ACP), ADARA Network Operating System, ADARA Comet™, ADARA Orion™, ADARA Sirius™, the ADARA Polaris SDN Unified Communications Platform and ADARA's SDN Affirmative Services Delivery products, and technologies for mobility. He is also the inventor of the ADARA Transport Protocol (ATP) which improves performance, reliability, and consistency over traditional TCP flows.

Prior to ADARA, Dr. Xie had a distinguished career at Motorola, where he was the recipient of multiple awards. He developed the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) with Randall R. Stewart, also now a member of the ADARA team. SCTP has since become the protocol of choice for building next-generation commercial grade infrastructures for telecommunications and e-commerce.

About ADARA Networks
ADARA Networks is an industry leading developer of production-ready and vendor-neutral Software- Defined Networking (SDN), Virtual Computing, and Networking solutions.  ADARA SDN is a complete end-to-end solution including Network Functions Virtualization, WAN optimization, network monitoring, management, and configuration, security, services/infrastructure choreography, and network orchestration. By enabling more flexible, secure, and high performing IT infrastructure environments, ADARA SDN empowers enterprise customers to develop new revenue streams, increase bottom line and net profits, and return on investment (ROI). For more information, please visit: http://www.adaranetworks.com. 

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