Integral Access Names President and CEO

By boston.internet.com Staff

Integral Access, a Chelmsford maker of telecom services delivery platforms, has named Jack Cicon, a 30-year telecom vet and a former Lucent Technologies executive, as president and CEO.

Integral Access founder Jeff Wake will now serve as full-time chairman and remain actively involved with the company.

"Jack Cicon has built and managed Lucent's multi-service access business into one of the company's fastest growing and most successful units," Wake said. "(His) extensive business, operations and technical management background, deep knowledge of the carrier market, and proven execution skills will play a central role in steering Integral Access to its next level."

The privately held company also announced that its technology platform, PurePacket, now supports fiber-optic networks. PurePacket, which already works with copper wire, Digital Subscriber Line and other delivery methods, allows carriers to deliver converged services over a single multi-purpose network regardless of the last mile link method.

Integral Access is privately held and has raised $61 million in venture capital from Ascent Venture Partners, BancBoston Ventures, Prism Venture Partners and other investors.

Its customers are network operators, especially competitive local exchange carriers and incumbent local exchange carriers, looking to deliver voice, video, broadband data and virtual private network services.