D2 Technologies Opens Boston Design Center for Mobile Device Software Development

Industry Luminary Zigurd Mednieks to Head R&D Effort

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--D2 Technologies announces today that it has opened a Design Center in Maynard, MA, just outside of Boston. The Center will be focused on the development of software products for mobile communication devices. Zigurd Mednieks, chief software architect, who reports to Matt Randmaa, vice president of engineering, heads the Design Center. Mednieks is a widely respected technologist, and the author of books and book chapters on telephony and programming published by leading publishers. D2 is best known for its vPort software, which is deployed in residential products, and is designed for CPE products such as wired/wireless Voice-enabled Terminal Adapters, routers and gateways, as well VoIP phones and handsets.

Technology Authority Zigurd Mednieks Heads the Design Center

Zigurd Mednieks joins D2 from JumpTap, where he was chief architect for handset technologies. Previously, he was CTO at mobile games maker Chasma, where he pioneered mobile multiplayer games. Prior to Chasma, at Erickson Juniper Networks, he helped create the J20 Gateway GPRS Serving Node.

Zigurd is an entrepreneur and a technology industry veteran. He has started, raised financing for and sold companies. He has 20 years of experience in visual and voice user interfaces, embedded systems for telecom infrastructure, CPE telephony systems, unified messaging, broadband voice/data systems and network applications development. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

"D2 is making a strong push into the mobile communication products arena, to complement our existing leadership position with devices for the CPE market via such products as VoIP gateways and Voice over WiFi handsets,” says Dr. David Wong, president of D2. "We are very fortunate to have an industry expert with the stature of Zigurd join us to head the Boston Design Center. We now have Design Centers in Boston and Taiwan that are closely integrated with our R&D staff in Santa Barbara, CA, which is known worldwide for its VoIP advances.”

The Boston Design Center is currently in a staffing mode. It is located at:

2 Clocktower Place, Suite 360

Maynard, MA 01754.

About D2 Technologies

D2 Technologies, Inc. is the world's leader in softDSP-based software solutions for the rapidly growing VoIP market. Its software spans both enterprise and consumer devices, such as gateways and WiFi handsets. Since the company's original founding in 1993, D2’s VoIP solutions have been widely deployed in thousands of systems that process billions of minutes of phone calls every month. D2 licenses its software to systems manufacturers worldwide who develop a wide variety of communications products for consumers and businesses. The company’s software runs on the platforms of several major semiconductor vendors.

The company’s headquarters is located at 104 W. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Additional information about D2 is available at www.d2tech.com.

D2’s Asia sales/support office is located at Room 6, 5F, No.120, Sect 2, Gongdaowu Road, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Tel: +886-3-5715339.