Key People
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With a combined total of over 50 years experience in the networking industry, Volktek has a senior team responsible for bringing quality and excellence to the Volktek range of products and solutions.
James Chen
President and Founder
With a master's degree in Management Information Systems, from Indiana University at Bloomington, U.S.A., James has over twenty years experience in the networking industry, and used to work at D-Link and Accton.
With Volktek since 1994 and bringing to the company a wide range of skills, including sales, marketing, general operation and manufacturing, James' primary focus at Volktek is on product planning/marketing, business development, and corporate strategic planning.
Margaret Liao
Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Margaret has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago, U.S.A.
With around 20 years experience in the networking industry, including previous positions at Accton and Delta Networks, Margaret is perfectly suited to managing accounts and promoting the products and solutions Volktek offers.
Raymond Lin
Vice President of Research & Development
Raymond obtained his master's degree in Computer & Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, U.S.A. Raymond previously worked for AEPCO of Maryland and at Taiwan’s premier research institute, Academia Sinica.
He has extensive knowledge in integrating hardware and software to ensure trouble-free operation and is now heading up Volktek's software design and integration team. Raymond joined Volktek in 2001.
Company History
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Starting out in 1994, Volktek has grown to a company largely focused on the R&D and sales and marketing of a variety of networking products, and is a leading Taiwan-based manufacturer of these categories of network devices. Volktek is positioned as a provider of expert industrial optical Ethernet solutions. With a focus on designing and manufacturing optical Ethernet products, Volktek is ideally placed to meet the needs of clients looking for high-quality, radiation-free data transmission over long distances.
Volktek has built on the wide-ranging experience of its R&D and manufacturing staff to successfully integrate IP-based Ethernet knowledge with fiber optic technology to offer a range of optical Ethernet products that combine these two specializations. With rapid growth in the data transmission market expected in the coming five years, applications requiring high bandwidths are increasingly coming to the fore. Video on Demand (VoD), Movies on Demand (MoD), Distance Learning, Online Shopping, and Video Conferencing will add to the current Data and Voice demands of the modern internet.
Volktek's product range can be broken down into three major product lines:
- Metro Ethernet, including telco-grade switches and residential routers and gateways
- SMB Ethernet Switches
- Media Converters
- Industrial/Hardened Ethernet
Adopting fiber optic technology has allowed Volktek to offer its customers leading-edge technology, while the integration of traditional copper-based Ethernet interfaces and technologies gives Volktek's customers a cost-effective means of migrating from a copper-based Ethernet environment to a fiber optic environment, without incurring excessive re-cabling costs.
Focused on a customer base that will require the adoption of fiber optic networking in a variety of locations, Volktek prides itself on being sufficiently flexible to work with its clients and offer solutions to each client's differing needs. Boasting in-house developed user interfaces and network management software, Volktek's products maintain a consistent user-interface across a range of products, and the benefit of a totally customizable software package for real-world applications.
Major customers for Volktek include Telcos/Broadband Service Providers, construction companies installing fiber to the home, government and schools, ITS firms, and factory automation integrators.