Newbridge Networks Inc, Kanata, Ontario has restructured with the formation of several business units along with changes to its organisational and management structure in its Americas Region. The three new business units are the MainStreet Access Product unit, MainStreet Business Networks unit, and the MainStreet Advanced Network Products business unit. The MainStreet Access Product business unit will focus primarily on the development and marketing of digital networking products that are intended mainly for connection to non-Newbridge facilities, including digital telephone exchanges. Initially the main products of this unit will be the 3624 MainStreet Intelligent Channel Bank, the 1600 MainStreet series of ISDN terminal adaptors, and the TAP family of Transmission Access Processors. The MainStreet Business Network business unit will focus on the continued development of the Newbridge Business Network Architecture, that is the 4600 MainStreet and 5600 MainStreet series of network management products, the 3600 MainStreet Bandwidth Manager, the 3645 MainStreet High Capacity Bandwidth Manager, the 2600 MainStreet range of Data Termination Units and the 8000 MainStreet series of internetworking products. The MainStreet Advanced Network Products unit is to focus on the development and marketing of products that are an integral part of Newbridge’s range of MainStreet bandwidth managers. The Advanced unit’s responsibility covers voice processing systems through to the ONE MainStreet Open Network Engine, a Unix-compliant system for application software. The products from the three business units will be sold through existing marketing and support organisations – the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Newbridge is re-organising its Americas Region activities by moving some regional headquarters functions from its corporate centre in Kanata, Ontario, to its US headquarters in Herndon, Virginia.
