Bill Flanagan -
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Published on: 1/25/2001
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Bill Flanagan
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Bill FlanaganProgram DirectorThe Burton Group45615 Willow Pond PlazaSterling VA 20164Ph: 703-855-0191Fax: 703-242-8391
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William A. Flanagan is Program Director at The Burton Group, a firm of communications consultants specializing in network architectures.There he analyzes enterprise WANs and carrier networks for equipment vendors as well as network operators.
Until 1998 he was vice president of marketing, product planning, and technology at FastComm Communications Corp., Sterling, Va., where he was responsible for the acquisition of the company's core frame relay capabilities and a family of channel-attached FEP products.
Previously Flanagan held vice president positions in marketing and technology with Newbridge Networks (before it was acquired by Alcatel) where he was instrumental in setting strategic targets like very large TDM networks (>10,000 nodes) and the addition of frame relay and ATM technology to the TDM product line.
Before that Flanagan built the marketing communications and strategic marketing functions at Timeplex, the early leader in T-1 networking.He is a physicist by training, a long-time participant in the Frame Relay Forum Technical Committee, a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, and an author of dozens of articles and five books on communications intended for the networking community.