Laurel's service edge routers and service management solutions are designed and developed by industry leaders with years of experience building telecommunications solutions installed in the world's largest service provider networks.

Robert Rennison, Co-Founder and Director of Routing and Signaling Software, is an industry pioneer with over 15 years of experience in the data communications and networking industries. Rob developed the first IP traffic engineering solutions to be deployed by large ISPs, including UUNET, Cable & Wireless and Level 3. As a Principal Engineer at FORE Systems, Rob designed and implemented routing, signaling and redundancy protocols on FORE's core Internet switching products. Many of the capabilities originally developed by Rob and his team have been adopted by the IETF MPLS working group. He was a significant contributor to the ATM Forum and continues to contribute technical work to the IETF and OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum).

Dimitris Varotsis, Co-Founder and Director of Network Systems Software, brings more than a decade of focused experience in data communications and computer networking to his current position. As principal engineer at FORE Systems, he led the development efforts of IP routing and MPLS switching on FORE's Internet switch product line. He also provided critical technical leadership for many other FORE products, including development of the software architecture for FORE's flagship ASX-4000 Internet switch.

Jeffrey Prem, Co-Founder and Director of System Services Software, has a solid background in developing high availability operating systems, with over a decade of industry experience. While at FORE Systems, Jeff's efforts were key in developing the software infrastructure needed to transform FORE switches into carrier-class switching products which ultimately led to FORE's success with large ISPs. Prior to FORE, he developed systems software for Transarc Corporation's distributed file systems products and for AT&T's UNIX System V kernel.

Pat Duegaw, Director of Manufacturing, has more than 20 years experience in the development of the supply chain infrastructures required to efficiently build and volume deliver PC and networking products. As a founding member of Berkeley Networks, Pat built a manufacturing team and implemented a supply chain model to support short cycle development and volume delivery requirements for a new NT-based IP switch, resulting in significant cost savings in the manufacturing process. Before joining Laurel Networks, Pat was Manufacturing Manager for New Product Introduction at FORE Systems.