VANCOUVER, Wash. -- New Edge Networks named Linda Beck, a veteran executive with deep operations and IT experience, as president of the business network company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. The appointment is effective immediately.
Beck, an executive vice president of EarthLink and general manager of EarthLink Business Solutions, had been interim president of New Edge Networks since last August.
Linda's knowledge and experience in IT and operations will go a long way for building trust and confidence among [image-nocss] IT decision makers who are responsible for developing technology and networking solutions for their businesses, Bill Heys, president of EarthLink's value and small-to-medium enterprises business unit. She understands their challenges.
Mike Lunsford, interim CEO of EarthLink, added, Linda is a proven and seasoned executive with the knowledge and experience necessary for helping the company become a growth engine for EarthLink's expansion into business communications services.
With EarthLink, Beck was previously executive vice president of operations managing EarthLink's network operations, software development, system administration, quality engineering and information technology teams, as well as the CTO and CIO functions. She was responsible for the backbone and infrastructure that provides EarthLink's Internet service, including three major data centers, hundreds of network points of presence and mail farms that deliver more than three billion messages each month.
Prior to joining EarthLink, Beck was vice president of engineering of Internet service providers Netcom and MindSpring. EarthLink merged with MindSpring in 2000.
New Edge Networks, Vancouver, Wash., builds and manages private networks for businesses and communications providers. Through its nationwide backbone network with about 900 switches and Internet routers, New Edge Networks uses any blend of access technologies (xDSL, frame relay, ATM, cable, wireless, and satellite) for providing broadband connectivity at any business address in the United States. Network options include any combination of access, network management functions and onsite installation services.
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