Veteran NSFNET Engineer Joins @Home

Mountain View, California -- August 15, 1996 -- @Home announced today that Elise Gerich, one of the pioneers in the Internet network community, is joining @Home as the Director for Operations and Network management, reporting directly to Milo Medin, Vice President, Network. In her role, she will oversee the deployment and operation of @Home's national network infrastructure, providing scaleable high-performance network services over cable television infrastructure.

Prior to joining @Home, Gerich was the Associate Director of National Networking for Merit Networks, a non-profit state networking group privately owned by public universities in Michigan to provide network connectivity for the state's higher education community.

Gerich is most known in the Internet and networking industry for her work at Merit, for the management and operation of the NSFNET (The National Science Foundation Network), the nation's largest and fastest network for research, education, and technology transfer, which served as the core backbone of the Internet until it was privatized in 1994. At Merit, she established an impressive track record in managing the NSFNET deployment and operation during an era of explosive Internet growth and technological advancements.

"Elise's ample capabilities serve as the capstone of @Home's commitment to providing high-quality, scaleable, proactively-managed network services to our customers and our cable operator partners," said Medin. "We feel she's the absolute best person for this job and are ecstatic about her joining the outstanding group of folks who have already called @Home their home."

While at Merit, Gerich also served as Manager of Merit's Internet Engineering group. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she joined Merit in December 1987 in support of the NSFNET Backbone Service project and served as Systems Project Coordinator on the Merit team, which provided routing consultation, transition planning, and technology upgrades for the DS1 and DS3 NSFNET backbones.

Gerich represented the National Science Foundation at Federal Engineering Planning Group meetings, serves as the North American co-chair of the International Engineering Planning Group, and is a member of the Internet Architecture Board. She also served as a member of the program committees for INET '92, '93 and '94.

"I am excited to be joining Milo and the talented engineering team of @Home--many of whom I knew from their work at NASA," said Gerich. "He and his team have built quite a reputation in engineering circles of being able to build and manage a large network infrastructure."

She holds a bachelor degree in French and Political Science from the University of Michigan and studied for a master degree in Education from the University of Michigan.

Based in Mountain View, CA, the At Home Corporation was formed in 1995. Investors in the company include Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company distributes high-speed interactive services to residences, businesses and schools using the cable industry's hybrid-fiber coaxial distribution architecture.

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