Teleste forms advisory board to target North American 10G opportunity

Broadband and video technology outfit Teleste has formed an advisory board to enable it to target the North American market.

Hanno Narjus

The board, focused on the North American cable market, is chaired by Hanno Narjus, SVP of Teleste Networks, and including Esa Harju (President and CEO of Teleste), Sandy Howe (former executive with Arris, Cisco and Technetix), Stephanie Mitchko Beale (former CTO, Charter Communications) and Neil Tang (president, Antronix).

With the migration of DOCSIS 4.0, Teleste is focusing on upgrades to 10G with its ICON product family including 1.8 GHz amplifiers and Distributed Access solutions.

Teleste’s goal is to enable the cable operators to transition the access network quickly to 10G and maintain their leadership in broadband. The advisory board offers a unique understanding on business, operations and product value required by Teleste’s customers to grow their business.

“The North American cable market is an important strategic focus area for Teleste, expanding our well-established business in Europe. With multi-gigabit technology coming just around the corner, I’m very much looking forward to working with the Advisory Board to provide our field-proven technology to the North American customers,” said Harju.

Teleste’s intelligent innovations to the North American cable industry, including our ability to automate large-scale field deployments and to improve network availability & lower OPEX. Teleste has delivered one million smart devices in Europe over the past 15 years. I am looking forward to collaborating with this talented team to achieve technology and market leadership in North America,” said Narjus.